Bug 41790
| Summary: | Installer fails on 3ware Escalade 6200 (corrupt partition table) | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Eric George <ergeorge> |
| Component: | installer | Assignee: | Brent Fox <bfox> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.1 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2001-06-01 18:29:40 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Eric George
2001-05-22 04:47:30 UTC
I'm thinking that our installer might not be able to recognize the partition table that Mandrake set up. That's just a guess though. Here are two options I can think of: 1) Use fdisk to wipe the Mandrake partitions off the drive. You can do that with the installer if you go to VC2 *before* the screen that causes the error message. Once you're at VC2, say 'mknod sda' and then 'fdisk sda'. You should then be able to wipe the existing partitions off the drive. 2)Boot the Red Hat installer with 'linux expert'. That should keep the installer from probing the drive. Does this help? Seems strange that RedHat would fail to recognize partitions created by another Linux distro. Particularly a RedHat derivative. Anyway... I suspect that fdisk will solve the problem. Kinda hurts if you want to dual boot though. I don't right now, so I'll probably try that. BTW: What is 'VC2"? I did try the expert mode. It eventually brought me back to the same place and came back with the same error. I'll retry the expert mode, and then fdisk if this doesn't work. Won't be until tonight though. Thanks Eric What I meant was that we might have trouble recognizing the ReiserFS partitions, which our installer doesn't set up (currently). Like I said, that was just a guess. I'm not really sure whether the problem is a combination of the 3ware card and ReiserFS...I don't have a lot of experience with either of those. Normally, dual booting distros isn't a problem. It's something that I test on my test machines, so that usually works. VC2 is the second virtual console...press <Ctrl><Alt><F2> and you'll be at a root shell inside the installer environment. You can then run fdisk from there if you need to. Let us know if the installer worked after fdisking the drive. Closing due to inactivity. Please reopen if you have more information. Sorry it took so long. I didn't get back to it until this morning. Using fdisk to delete the existing partitions solved the problem. The install went fine from that point. Thanks |