[Jonathan183]

Originally Posted by buccaneere

[fedora@localhost ~]$ sudo fdisk -l
fedora is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
[fedora@localhost ~]$

At least it only put it in your system log files and here.

My Ubuntu load is on sdb, I'm pretty sure. Shouldn't Ubuntu + Fedora be loaded on the same disk? Does it matter to the GRUB loader?

Grub should be able to cope with different disks ... from the above it looks like there is not space on the hard drives as reported by the install.

What installed the LVM was it a failed install attempts?

Ed: I have not used LVM at all ... when I installed CentOS this was to an ext3 partition ... can you do the same with Fedora and see if that works once you create the free space on one of the disks? ... I did say I'd ask the stupid questions.

[buccaneere]

Originally Posted by Jonathan183

What installed the LVM was it a failed install attempts?

Ed: I have not used LVM at all ... when I installed CentOS this was to an ext3 partition ... can you do the same with Fedora and see if that works once you create the free space on one of the disks? ... I did say I'd ask the stupid questions.

I presume the LVM was indeed installed by a failed Fed 8 install, although I don't know that for certain.

What does that tell me, about how to get the install done successfully?

Could this install problem be related to the fact that only disk sdb gets mounted at boot-up, when I boot Ubuntu???

Could having 2 of the HDDs on a PCI IDE controller card cause a problem?

[buccaneere]

I got a second 'successful install' (supposedly) right now.

Before I re-boot from Live, anything I can do to confirm install? What would be the error if 'change directory' doesn't execute?

Thanks again....................

[buccaneere]

The second 'successful install' (again), was not.

Any ideas?

[devils casper]

I would suggest you to create ext3 partitions instead of LVM.

[Jonathan183]

Originally Posted by buccaneere

I can't install Fedora 8 anywhere (of 4 hard disks in this box).

I tried 3 unused, unpartitioned disks for the install sda, sdc, sdd, but even with option 'Remove all partitions and create default layout', the return is 'Could not allocate requested partitions', for all 3 disks.

Originally Posted by buccaneere

I presume the LVM was indeed installed by a failed Fed 8 install, although I don't know that for certain.

What does that tell me, about how to get the install done successfully?

Could this install problem be related to the fact that only disk sdb gets mounted at boot-up, when I boot Ubuntu???

Could having 2 of the HDDs on a PCI IDE controller card cause a problem?

Originally Posted by buccaneere

The second 'successful install' (again), was not.

Any ideas?

The message you get this time looks to be different to your original post ... original bomb out of install process due to lack of disk space. Now it sounds as though you have managed to install but you don't have an option to start FC on the boot menu.

Since you have had a go at running install since the fdisk -l posting I suggest you run that again. Also indicate which drive you did the last sucessful install to.

My guess would be that you have an install but grub was not updated as part of the install process. So I'd track down the grub /boot/grub/menu.lst file which should have been added as part of the install and add an entry to your existing grub menu to link to it ... something like ...

title Other grub menu (sda8) CentOS
        root (hd0,7)
        configfile=/boot/grub/menu.lst

Replacing the (hd0,7) with the correct reference eg second hard drive 5th partition hdb5 would be (hd1,4) etc.

devils_casper may have other suggestions ... and be able to comment further on the PCI IDE controller.

[buccaneere]

Too late.

I tried to install Fed8 again, wiping Ubuntu, and default partitioning all 4 disks. Ubuntu was a new install; no big deal.

The Fed8 install completed [again], but would not eject Live disk, and at re-boot, lights up error 17.

I cannot bring up bios either - it is booting right into grub loader.

Now what?

[devils casper]

Press F8, Del or F2 keys at startup to enter in BIOS.
Have you created LVM this too?
Boot up from LiveCD again and execute this in Terminal :

su -
/sbin/fdisk -l

Post output here.

[Jonathan183]

Originally Posted by devils_casper

Press F8, Del or F2 keys at startup to enter in BIOS.
Have you created LVM this too?
Boot up from LiveCD again and execute this in Terminal :

su -
/sbin/fdisk -l

Post output here.

If the keys don't work to get you into BIOS then try esc, backspace, F1 as well. On some PC's you don't get a prompt to hit a key to enter BIOS so you should also try keeping the keys pressed during the reboot.

[buccaneere]

This problem also was caused by KVM incompatbility.

Although it switched properly, it caused instability in a linux box, and a windows box.

???