FC4 HDD showing wrong size
 

Hi Guys,

Wondering if anyone can help me out. My problem is I'm trying to install FC4 64 bit version. Everything is fine till I get to the Disk Druid/Autopartition part. It wont recognise that my /hda is greater than 2.5gb. I've tried almost everything, even using another partition manager to create the partitions manually, yet when I do this /hda doesn't even show up.

I can only do a minimal install with the HDD set at 2.5gb and I don't know linux well enough to work in text mode.

My HDD situation is this:

/hda = 120GB Maxtor IDE drive
/hdb = 120GB Seagate (which shows up fine)
/sda = 120GB Western Digital (which shows up fine)
/sdb = 160GB Seagate (which shows up fine)

My problem is I don't want to erase the information on the 3 hard drives that do show up fine, I tried installing to /sdb once and it messed up my boot sector on /hda.

Under any other partition manager /hda shows up fine and partitions properly, just the one with FC4 is not working. I haven't got a copy of the 32bit version of FC4 to test it out. Anyone have a fix for this or is there any options I can pass at boot to force the hard drive to be configured?

Cheers.

Are the jumpers on the Back of the HDD fitted correctly?

Usually, these problems occur due to the incorrect connection of the Jumpers.

Checked the jumpers, even put the jumper on for limiting the size of the drive, yet FC4 still sees only 2557MB. Seems strange that under any other operating system the drive shows up fine with the right size.

When the cd is booting try to see what dows the kernel reconises on your ide interfaces, you have another way to see it when you get to the partition manager go to the tty2 (crtl+alt+f2) and write dmesg to see your system booting messages to figure out what the kernel says about your hdd.
you can also try "fdisk /dev/hda" to see your disk size geometry and partition on it.

Good Luck

couldn't understand the output from dmesg, but using fdisk /dev/hda gave me the entire drive to mess with. Could even partition it and use LVM type for the full 120GB, yet the moment i switched to using Autopartition or Disk Druid they refuse to acknowledge it. Autopartition told me the partition table was unreadable and that i needed to initialize it, which defeated the purpose of changing it in fdisk :rolleyes:

both autopartition and disk druid at this point only give me the option of using /hdb, /sda and /sdb. am at a loss here, any other distro picks it up and can configure the hdd, yet i want fc4 which doesn't look like it's going to work for me

have you tried to swap hdb with hda just to check its geometry in disk druid.
personally I do not like to use auto partition, and I have many times configured and formated my paritions on the console environment only then assigning the content to each partition.

try disconnect th other hdd's and leave just hda and the cdrom at th second ide just to make sure there's no incompatibility between the disks capacity and fc4 anaconda.

keep posting your results.