On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Michael Evans <mjevans1983@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Try providing the output of; > for ii in /dev/[sh]d[a-z] ; do parted $ii print ; done > > If you have any kind of partition table this should tell us what it > is. If you don't, something odd is happening. > Also, you'll need to run that as the root (unix term for absolute administrator account) user. Since you mentioned installing and lack partitions you probably need a linux on CD or usb stick distribution; http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page works well for me and might help you enough to get you in to user mode; as well as non-destructively auto-detecting most storage setups and having very recent software. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html