Christophe Combelles wrote: > After having installed a 8.2beta4 on a single disk PC, I have tried to > install a redhat 7.2. The partitionning tool of the redhat has warned > me with the following message : > > "Unable to align partition properly. This probably means that another > partitioning tool generated an incorrect partition table, because it > didn't have the correct BIOS geometry. It is safe to ignore, but > ignoring may cause (fixable) problems with some boot loaders." > > Maybe this should be investigated ? Does diskdrake get the correct > bios geometry ? Does it really generate an incorrect partition table ? > Is your hard disk a big WD? We have seen some approximation errors in disk geometry with these through several kernels (and fdisk showed the same thing!) with certain implementations of the VIA KT133 series chipsets. If not, this might be something new.
Civileme
