Re: Needed help with Linux installation

From: dmorgan1 (dmorgan-with-suffixed-"1"-ATdslextreme.com)
Date: 12/18/04 

Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 13:22:28 -0800

The message is a warning, "...it is safe to ignore but..." so take it
at it's word, ignore it, and try to proceed with the linux
installation. Did you do that? If so, did the installation software
take you to the point where it showed you the partitions? If you can
get there, I would have it delete the non-windows partitions then
create partitions for linux from within the installation software.
This makes linux author the partition table entries, so they will be
to linux's liking. If you can't get there, you might try deleting
those non-windows partitions from another tool. Preferably a linux
tool-- like a bootable knoppix CD (http://www.knoppix.org/) or the
rescue mode of a set of linux installation CDs. Worst case, delete
those partitions from within Windows (win98 has an fdisk program).

On 18 Dec 2004 10:40:29 -0800, atcelsius@yahoo.co.uk (celsius) wrote:

>Hi folks,
>
>I am basically a windows user keen to enter the world of Linux. I was
>using which was dual boot, which contained red hat Linux 9.0 and win
>98.
>Last week I had a virus attack and had to re install windows again. As
>a result
>every time the computer boots grub is not coming. Now I tried to
>install red hat Linux 9.0 on the existing Linux partitions. But while
>it is installing it is showing the
>message: -
>unable to align partition correctly. This probably means another
>partitioning tool generated an incorrect partitioning table, because
>it did not have correct BIOS geometry. it is safe to ignore but
>ignoring may cause warning (fishable) problems with some boot loaders.
>
>Even though the Linux distribution is installing, grub boot loader is
>not loading.
>
>So what to do?
>
>As a matter of fat i had used partition magic 8.0 to create a new
>fat32 partition and later merged it with another existing fat 32
>partition. After this only the problem is coming.
>
>Now whenever I try to open partition magic it is showing the message
>
>Init failed error 117
>partitions drive letter cannot be identified.
>
>In fact when I take partition info tool
>it is giving the message partition contains errors.
>
>When I check the E: drive it is giving the message
>
>error #114 logical starting at 40965813 is not one head away from EPBR
>
>please note that i am just a beginner in these matters. So any help
>would be appreciated

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