On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Alan Evans<ame.fedora@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Just did a fresh install of F11 on a P4. The SATA hard disk was > repatriated from a broken iMac. > > I didn't have install disks handy, so I downloaded the netinstall > image and installed the whole thing over my home DSL. This took nearly > a day and a half, and I don't want to repeat that process if I can > avoid it. > > I instructed anaconda to remove everything and use the whole drive. > The installer never complained of any trouble. When I went to reboot, > the system refused to recognize the hard drive as bootable. I jacked > around with BIOS settings to no avail. Finally, I booted from the > install CD and selected rescue mode. > > Rescue mode mounted /dev/sda2 on /mnt/sysimage. I looked and the > install appears intact. > > I ran fdisk on /dev/sda and it complained, "Device contains neither a > valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel." And then > further down, "Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 4 will > be corrected by w(rite)." There are no partitions listed when I select > "p" to do so. > > At this point, I'm petrified. What can be done to fix this and get > Fedora to boot? Ok, maybe I'm asking the wrong question... Does anybody have an idea why anaconda/rescue mode can find and mount my root partition on /dev/sda2, but fdisk can't even recognize that my disk has a partition table at all? -Alan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
