On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 04:00:59PM +0100, Dan Track wrote: > Hi, > > How can I delete a GPT partition upon installation. Basically > everytime I install the OS I keep getting the following: > > Filesystem type unknowm, partition type 0xee > kernel /vmlinuz.2.6.18-128.el5 ro root=LABEL=/ > > error 17: Cannot mount selected partition > > Press any key to continue > > > Any ideas on this please, as I think it is related to GPT. It is related to GPT. You have a GPT partition table on the disk, which has a "Protective MBR" entry of type 0xee which covers the whole disk, which prevents non-gpt-aware partition editing tools from monkeying with it. If you delete the 0xee partition, and then create another partition, you'll wind up overwriting the whole GPT partition table and all the contents it refers to. You appear to be installing RHEL5. Is this an anaconda-generated error message? Do you really intend to completely wipe the contents of this disk and install fresh? If so, before you get to this screen, drop to Alt-F2, and erase the first few and last few MB on the disk, before proceeding back within the installer. Or boot a Fedora LiveCD and use that as your environment to erase the first and last few MB of the disk. -- Matt Domsch Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
