Re: Fedora 4 install woes

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Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 22:33:37 GMT

Edward Diener No Spam wrote:
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> The Fedora 4 boot partition spans the 137 GB boundary ( I said I had a
> large hard drive ). I know my BIOS supports hard drives greater than 137
> GB. Is it really possible that Linux, or Fedora Core 4 more precisely,
> or perhaps grub even more precisely, does not ? Could this be causing
> the problem and Fedora Core 4 could not set up the grub boot loader at
> the beginning of the partition to boot the OS ?

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Yep, I had the same problem with FC4 using a 200Gb Western Digital. I
never nailed the problem in that box, but what really confused me is
when I tried to install either FC4 or CentOS on an old Dell with a 40GB
disk, it bombed right when it starts to format the partitions. It
kicked out and said that it couldn't find the hard dive (After it
identified it and allowed me to set my partitions.) I even went as far
as to not use the LVOL setup, sticking with the standard mount points.

The BIOS on the old Dell box was set to boot first from a bootable
add-in card (anything other than the onboard IDE). My disk was attached
to the onboard IDE, with no SCSI or other PCI card installed. (I used
to have a SCSI card in it) I changed the BIOS to boot from the onboard
IDE first, and all was well.

I haven't had the time to get the 200GB disk working, but this may help.

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