I tried to upgrade my Thinkpad X61s today with a Fedora 8 64-bit distro on DVD. This laptop has been running Vista Business and Fedora 7 for many months and I have had no trouble installing Fedora in the past. But this time I have been stymied. When I tried to install Fedora 8, I got as far as the screens that ask for language and keyboard type, but then got this error message "The partition table on device sda was unreadable" when I got to the pages related to setting up partitions, followed by the option to destroy all partitions. (I don't think so.) Searching the Internet indicates this is a known bug http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/F8Common#head-6908d00fe8346c4da773d32c5d1aaf3415d9713f and the fix is evidently to type something like linux libata.ignore_hpa=1 at the boot prompt. I tried this as follows: when I got to the Welcome screen (the very first screen of the F8 install procedure), I hit the escape key, which brought me to a some kind of shell window with a prompt. I then typed the above line linux libata.ignore_hpa=1 but ran into the same problem, the partition table was unreadable, so installation failed. So I have two questions: - What am I doing wrong? For example, am I supposed to give the command http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/F8Common#head-6908d00fe8346c4da773d32c5d1aaf3415d9713f to the prompt at some point during installation? - Does anyone know how to work around this bug? Thanks, Henry _______________________________________________ Fedora-laptop-list mailing list Fedora-laptop-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-laptop-list
