Well I am a bit confused, you said you installed Windows XP on the first hard disk and intended to install Fedora Core 5 on the second. Are the 2 160 GB harddisks on a software raid controller on the motherboard? The reason why I mentioned this is because logical volume management (lvm) also uses the device mapper so if you aren't using a software raid (and installing windows on a raid) then it's not a dmraid issue it's an lvm issue. Anyway Fedora installs where it sees ntfs partitions don't work very well because linux doesn't really fully support ntfs (read only, limited write support) so that might be your installation issue it can't read the ntfs (Fedora doesn't even come with the ntfs.ko kernel driver module). Fat32 partitions are better for dual-boot configurations because linux has read/write fat32 support (vfat.ko) kernel driver module. -James > ----- Original Message ----- > From: hicham <hichamlinux@xxxxxxxxx> > To: "ATARAID (eg, Promise Fasttrak, Highpoint 370) related discussions" <ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: FC5 install and device mapper issue > Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 16:43:58 +0000 > > > ( sorry things got messed up in my previous email ) > > > > > If you boot the FC5 cd and type linux rescue, can you post the output of # dmraid -ay and # > > fdisk -l /dev/mapper/isw_hgbhgbbcd commands? > > > > The first time I run : > > # dmraid -ay : > > RAID set "isw_hgbhgbbcd_Volume0" already active > > RAID set "isw_hgbhgbbcd_Volume1" already active > > The second time , I get > > # dmraid -ay : > > RAID set "isw_hgbhgbbcd_Volume0" already active > > RAID set "isw_hgbhgbbcd_Volume1" already active > > RAID set "isw_hgbhgbbcd_Volume01" already active > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > # fdisk -l /dev/mapper/isw_hgbhgbbcd_Volume0 > > Disk /dev/mapper/isw_hgbhgbbcd_Volume0: 161.0 GB, 161061538816 bytes > > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19581 cylinders > > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > > > Device Boot Start End > > Blocks Id System > > /dev/mapper/isw_hgbhgbbcd_Volume0p1 * 1 5222 > > 41945683+ 7 HPFS/NTFS > > /dev/mapper/isw_hgbhgbbcd_Volume0p2 5223 19928 > > 118125945 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > # fdisk -l /dev/mapper/isw_hgbhgbbcd_Volume1 > > Disk /dev/mapper/isw_hgbhgbbcd_Volume1: 166.7 GB, 166786763776 bytes > > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 20277 cylinders > > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > # fdisk -l /dev/mapper/isw_hgbhgbbcd_Volume01 > > > > Disk /dev/mapper/isw_hgbhgbbcd_Volume01: 42.9 GB, 42952379904 bytes > > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 5221 cylinders > > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > > > This doesn't look like a partition table > > Probably you selected the wrong device. > > > > Device Boot Start End > > Blocks Id System > > /dev/mapper/isw_hgbhgbbcd_Volume01p1 ? 119529 232583 > > 908105142 74 Unknown > > Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. > > /dev/mapper/isw_hgbhgbbcd_Volume01p2 ? 119534 224381 > > 842184976 70 DiskSecure Multi-Boot > > Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. > > /dev/mapper/isw_hgbhgbbcd_Volume01p3 ? 10497 10497 > > 0 72 Unknown > > Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary. > > /dev/mapper/isw_hgbhgbbcd_Volume01p4 160318 160321 > > 24404 0 Empty > > Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary. > > > > Partition table entries are not in disk order > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > note I don't intend to use software raid in fc5 anyway for the moment > > > > hicham > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list > -- _______________________________________________ Search for businesses by name, location, or phone number. -Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10 _______________________________________________ Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list
