I installed rh71 on my laptop (Dell Latitude LSt) yesterday, and I'm
generally quite happy with it (especially the X11 AA). Sound doesn't
work though, it never has with the built-in kernel support, even
though the OpenSound guys promised to send their patches to the Linux
kernel people (they fixed the problem when I reported it a year ago).
However, the new check-that-partitions-are-properly-aligned seem to
catch some situations that work (rather than only catching situations
that wouldn't work, which I assume was the intention).
I partitioned my disk using netbsd, and whatever it did it has worked
fine with W2k, netbsd and RedHat 7.0. Redhat 7.0 was also installed
after netbsd, and didn't complain about anything and worked just fine.
Installing redhat 7.1 display a error message [1] and then just aborts
the installation. A option to simply ignore this condition and
continue would be nice, because everything seem to work anyway. I got
around the installation problem by specifying hda=38760,16,63 when
booting the installation. Booting the final installation works fine
though (w/o the options).
Output (2.4 kernel):
hd0: C/H/S=0/0/0 from BIOS ignored
hda: FUJITSU MHM2200AT, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: 39070080 sectors (20004 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=38760/16/63, UDMA(33)
Partition check:
hda: [PTBL] [2432/255/63] hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 >
Thanks in advance.
[1] I also think the error message should say HOW you pass these
options to the kernel. Including "hda=cyl,sec,hd" or whatever it is
would be good. Or at least a reference on where you can find this
information.
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