On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 11:08 +1300, Steve Phillips wrote: > If you use third party tools to create a non-standard partitioning > system then you can expect there to be problems especially if the system > used is not a recognised or established standard. > > It appears that your partitioning system is such a system, I would > suggest you back everything up and then re-install (using a normal > partitioning scheme - 3 primary partitions and an extended partition and > then subpartitions within the extended partition), the error you are > getting will be (surpisingly) due to the installer being unable to read > your partition table and make sense of it. Your partition table ordered by starting "cylinder" number: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 1045 8393931 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda2 1046 8205 57505549+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 1046 2320 10241406 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda6 2321 3595 10241406 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hda7 3596 4870 10241406 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hda8 4871 5890 8193118+ 83 Linux - data on RH9 /dev/hda9 5891 6910 8193118+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda10 6911 7009 795154+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hda3 7010 7022 104422+ 83 Linux /dev/hda11 7023 7798 6228400+ 83 Linux - Mandrake-10 /dev/hda12 7798 8205 3266392+ 83 Linux - Data on Mandrake 10 freespace 8206 8927 /dev/hda4 8928 9729 6442065 83 Linux - RH9 So what you have is a primary partition followed by an extended partition followed by free space then another primary partition. I know windows NT will let you create a scheme like that, but in general, disks installed on PC compatible systems are expected to have the extended partition as the last partition, that is, following all (up to three) primary partitions. If you have the option (with something like Partition Magic), you might be able to fix it by moving hda2 and hda4 so that the above rule is not violated. Linus -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
