Hi,
I'm having problems with the setup of Fedora 11 64 bits on my PC. When I and order a new 30500 Mb ext3 partition for / (personalized partioning method chosen), an "exception occured" message box appears with the following message :
"An unhandled exception has occured. This is most likely a bug. Please save a copy of the detailed exception and file a bug report against anaconda at https://bugzilla.redhat.com".
As a workaroud I tried to have the partition created by myself with Gparted LiveCD 0.4.5-2: the Fedora 11 setup process then went to its normal term; I copied the first sector of the partition to a file in the vista partition under Ubuntu 9.10 64bits (sudo dd if=/dev/sda12 of=/media/ACERVista/fedo1264.bin count=1 bs=512) and I added a line (c:\fedo1264.bin="Fedora 11 64 bits on sda12") to the boot.ini file of the Vista partition in order to choose Fedora at boot time. But when I choose Fedora in the Vista boot manager, I get nothing more than a blinking cursor on the black screen.
Notice this is the way I run Ubuntu 9.10 and Red Hat 5.0.3 every day and they work as well as two XP and one Vista instances.
I also tried to update Ubuntu's Grub2, hoping that I would first boot Ubuntu from Vista boot manager, then boot Fedora from Ubuntu's Grub2. It failed as the Fedora partition was not added to the Ubuntu's Grub2 list.
I've tried to install from the Fedora 11 Gnome LiveCD instead of the DVD but I got the same result.
Everything appears as if Fedora was not able to manage the partition as bootable. May this be caused by the residence of this partition logical (sda12) in the extended partition (sda2) ?
This PC is an ACER X3200 75 built in october 2008 with an AMD Phenom X4 cpu, an NVIDIA 9300+8200 gpu (I have 2 screens, one landscape, one portrait), 4 GB RAM, a 1500 GB SATA Seagate disk (originally a 640 GB that I replaced) partitionned as follows (partition sorted by time of creation not by position) :
Is there a way to get Fedora 11 64 installed on this computer ? Should I try Fedora 12 RC 4 ?
regards,
Jer
More info (and also see bug report in the file InstallError.txt attached)
Fedora11 LiveCD Gnome fsdisk reports :
[root@localhost liveuser]# fdisk -v
fdisk (util-linux-ng 2.14.2)
[root@localhost liveuser]# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 1500.3 GB, 1500301910016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 182401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x3ac031da
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 4571 36712448 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 4572 172087 1345572270 5 Extended
/dev/sda3 172088 176792 37792912+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 176793 182401 45054292+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda5 4572 100182 767995326 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6 100183 118029 143355996 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda7 119305 124276 39937558+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda8 124277 128124 30909028+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda9 128762 131948 25599546 83 Linux
/dev/sda10 131949 135833 31206231 83 Linux
/dev/sda11 170804 172087 10313698+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda12 135834 139721 31230328+ 83 Linux
Partition table entries are not in disk order
Disk /dev/dm-0: 3221 MB, 3221225472 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 391 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table
Disk /dev/dm-1: 3221 MB, 3221225472 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 391 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table
[root@localhost liveuser]#
fstab created by Fedora 11 DVD 64 setup :
jer@FIXE:~$ cat /media/Fedora11-64/etc/fstab
#
# /etc/fstab
# Created by anaconda on Mon Nov 9 13:47:23 2009
#
# Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk'
# See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or vol_id(8) for more info
#
UUID=3e739853-a398-41c5-ba78-a545e3e34303 / ext3 defaults 1 1
UUID=1ab7553b-3344-4e15-a9fe-8e7fe587bfff swap swap defaults 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
jer@FIXE:~$
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