Bug 116015

Summary: Disk Druid fails to recognize partition table
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Scott Tomer <scott>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Jeremy Katz <katzj>
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Description Scott Tomer 2004-02-17 17:10:20 UTC
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Description of problem:
I am trying to install Fedora Core2 Test1 on my Dell Inspiron 5150
Notebook.  The disk was partitioned some time ago using Partition
Magic.  I then kept the XP Pro installation were it was on the resized
partition and successfully installed Mandrake Linux 9.2.

I am now trying to replace that mandrake installation with Fedora. 
However, after the installer tests the CD's successfully, it fails to
recognize the partition table and hence will not start disk druid and
the installation exits.

Also, the install did not probe for a suitable monitor (laptop
display) and I had to do the install using "text".  But, that is
another bug and I will enter it as well.

Thanks for all your hard work.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Boot from CD
2.Test CD's
3.Select Disk Druid so that I can use my existing partitions.

    

Actual Results:  It fails and exits Install.  The exact error is that
it cannot recognize my partition table.

Expected Results:  I should be able to select my existing linux
partitions, re-format them and install.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2004-02-17 17:22:25 UTC
Can you switch to tty2 and get the output of fdisk -l and parted on
your drive?

Comment 2 Scott Tomer 2004-02-17 18:15:47 UTC
fdisk -l output:
Disk /dev/hdc : 60 GB
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders
units = cyliders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280

Device        Start  End  ID  System
/dev/hdc1     1      4    de  Dell Utility
/dev/hdc2     5      2179 7   HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdc3     2180   7296 f   W95 Ext'd LBA
/dev/hdc4     6515   7263 83  Linux
/dev/hdc5     2180   2443 7   HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdc6     2444   2571 7   HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdc7     2572   6514 7   HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdc8     7264   7296 82  Linux Swap

parted output:
Floating point exception

Comment 3 Jeremy Katz 2004-02-17 20:55:13 UTC
Ugh, okay can you attach the partition table here.  dd if=/dev/hdc
of=somefile bs=512 count=1

Comment 4 Scott Tomer 2004-02-18 16:41:37 UTC
Created attachment 97803 [details]
Partition Table from dd

Partition table from "dd if=/dev/hdc of=parttable bs=512 count=1"

Comment 5 Jeremy Katz 2004-09-22 19:01:07 UTC
Is this happier with FC3 test 2?

Comment 6 Scott Tomer 2004-09-22 19:48:23 UTC
I am sad to say that I have changed jobs and no longer have access to
the machine that I was having this problem with.  So, I have no way of
verifying either way if FC3 test 2 fixes it or not.