Alan Evans wrote:
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
Alan,
you are running fdisk on /dev/sda and not /dev/sda2?
Howard.
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