Bug 13472

Summary:	Cannot partition (error reading partition table)
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	darkwing
Component:	installer	Assignee:	Michael Fulbright <msf>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Version:	6.2
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Description darkwing 2000-07-04 18:46:07 UTC

I get this error when using the standard installer, when I use fdisk i can 
see the partition table en edit it. What going wrong. In RH6.1 the same 
thing happened.

Comment 1 Michael Fulbright 2000-07-07 01:41:01 UTC

Could you describe in more detail how you get the error message to occur?

Was this in the text or graphical installer?

Comment 2 darkwing 2000-07-07 18:21:10 UTC

with both the text, graphical and expert installer, this things happens.
The message appears when I select whatfor installation it will be (gnome 
workstation, kde workstation etc.). When i switch to another console and try to 
partitioning with fdisk ('fdisk /tmp/hda') every works fine. The installer v5.x 
give not a problem

Comment 3 Michael Fulbright 2000-07-13 18:48:45 UTC

If you choose custom install can you manually partition using disk druid?

Comment 4 darkwing 2000-07-15 16:27:33 UTC

No, the error message comes before that; it doesn't matter what kind of 
installation I choose..

Comment 5 Michael Fulbright 2000-08-17 20:43:46 UTC

If you do a text install, wait until you get the 'Welcome to ...' screen and hit
'Alt-F2' to goto a screen with a consolve prompt.  Type 'cat /proc/partitions'
and report back what you see.

Comment 6 Michael Fulbright 2000-10-19 22:05:58 UTC

Please reopen this bug if you continue to have problems.