Bug 141110

Summary:	install process corrupts LBA-CHS hard drive informations
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Ferdinando Bassi <ferdybassi>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	Thomas Fehr <fehr>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:	Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity:	Critical
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Windows
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Found By:	Customer	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---

Description Ferdinando Bassi 2005-12-29 20:20:33 UTC

After installation, Windows can't boot anymore. It boots, asks for login, loads personal settings, then shows desktops and suddenly freeze. SUSE boots fine.
Partition Magic and Drive Image reports some mistmatchs in LBA and CHS hard disk informations.
Deleted all partitions, re-installed Windows. All was OK. Then installed SUSE 10 into previously unpartitioned hard disk space and the problem appeared again.
Hardware is a Toshiba Satellite 5200 notebook, IBM hard disk. Since BIOS is Windows based BIOS I can't say whether the Hard Disk is LBA or not.
SUSE 9.3 was fine.
I read somewhere on the web about a similar problem on Fedora Core 2...

Comment 1 Ladislav Slezák 2006-01-04 07:41:44 UTC

Thomas, I'm not sure where the problem could be. In yast, kernel, parted...?

Comment 2 Thomas Fehr 2006-01-09 11:36:49 UTC

Need y2log files to see what was going on.

Comment 3 Thomas Fehr 2006-02-02 11:59:52 UTC

Closing this because lack of log files.