Bug#252204: install: Installer format fails
On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 10:17:09PM -0400, Terence wrote:
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> No matter how I parition the harddrive, partman just say "format
> failed" and return me back to partman again. I look at the log. It
> says Cannot find reiserfs fs on /dev/hda1.
If you are able to retry the installation please try to reproduce this
error and then send us the file /var/log/partman.
> I suspect that it is due to the fact that my old bios (sorry no new
> bios is available) cannot support harddrive bigger than 8.4gb.
I think that your old BIOS is not a problem as Linux doesn't use BIOS in
order to access the hard disks.
Anton Zinoviev
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