I had this problem on upgrading my laptop from RH7.0 to RH7.1:
An error occurred reading the partition table for the block
device hda. The error was:
Partition(s) do not end on cylinder boundary
This occurs because the drive geometry detected by the kernel
used by the installer is
different that the drive geometry used when the drive was
partitioned. This can be
corrected by specifying the drive geometry on the kernel
command line when booting the
installer.
In all my previous updates, I never had this problem. I noticed Charles
Galpin had a similar problem from his 2 redhat-list messages with the
subject line, "Redhat 7.1/kernel 2.4.2 & disk geometry on boot."
Like him, I was wondering what C/H/S values I should use. I've seen
different values, 16383/16/63 and 33521/16/63.
Not exactly knowing what to do, I tried the "expert" option when booting
RH7.1 CD1, expecting to have to enter something special at some point.
Well lo and behold, I really didn't have to enter anything special at
all. This time anaconda figured out the geometry of /dev/hda OK and
proceeded with the rest of package selection and installing software,
instead of bombing out with the error message I noted at the top.
--
Geoffrey S. Knauth
BBN Technologies, 617-873-5257
General: http://knauth.org/gsk
Office: http://stout.bbn.com/~gknauth
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