On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 7:12 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Alan Evans wrote: >> >> Ok. Given the totality of my experience so far combined with the many >> replies I've received in this thread, I was inclined to believe that >> starting with a Mac-formatted disk was really causing me serious >> trouble. >> >> I really need a working system here, so i decided to save an image of >> the hard drive and start fresh. I dd'd the hard drive onto another, >> external drive in case I ever wanted it back, then I used fdisk to fix >> the apparently broken partition table. For good measure, I even >> created a dummy partition and ran mke2fs on it to assure the drive was >> in good shape. >> > Instead of using fdisk, use parted to create an empty partition, and > then copy your installed partition back to the drive. parted will > take care of all the little booking details so tha things should > work. It is also faster then dd because it does not need to copy the > unused parts of the partition - it understands file systems. Sorry it took me so long to reply to this; I have to sleep and go to work at least sometimes. Pre-creating partitions didn't help. The installer still choked on it claiming that the partition table was messed up. So I tried your suggested of writing zeros over the beginning of the drive, not very hopeful. But it worked! The install proceeded without a hitch and the PC booted the installed OS. (Add fanfare.) However, now that the system is running, fdisk reports: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 26 204800 83 Linux Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda2 26 24321 195153601 8e Linux LVM So I'm still confused about the disagreement between fdisk and anaconda regarding how to lay down a partition table. Being an old-school kind of guy, I'm inclined to believe fdisk, but I don't really know how to confirm it one way or the other. The most important thing to me is that the system is running and my wife can leave me alone about getting online! -Alan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
