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From: Matt_Domsch@Dell.com
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: [Linux-ia64] Red Hat Installer cannot find the hard drive
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 02:34:47 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105590693005767@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105590693005762@msgid-missing>

>> Partiition(s)) do not end on cylinder boundary:
> I got the same problem. You can try to do the low-level format for the
> harddrive and rest, go through the installation process. That 
> should resolve
> the error. At least it worked for me.

You don't have to low-level the drive, just write zeros to the first sector,
or erase the partition table.  Much faster...

Intel's fdisk.efi doesn't cylinder-align the EFI System Partition, which
often causes this problem.  If you use fdisk from within the installer,
delete the first partition, and write the empty partition table out, then
restart the installer, it'll work fine.

Thanks,
Matt

-- 
Matt Domsch
Sr. Software Engineer
Dell Linux Solutions
www.dell.com/linux



  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-06-26  2:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-06-25 23:47 [Linux-ia64] Red Hat Installer cannot find the hard drive Li, Shuo
2001-06-26  0:00 ` Akhter, Shameem F
2001-06-26  0:02 ` Stephane Eranian
2001-06-26  2:34 ` Matt_Domsch [this message]
2001-06-26  2:38 ` Dan Pop

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