From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16 i686) Description of problem: I get to the point in the installation where it requests the instalation type (workstation, server, etc.) When I hit <next> from here, a window pops up saying that sda (the 3ware controlled volume) has a corrupt partition table. Retrying doesn't help, so the installation fails. At the beginning of the installation a small window briefly popped up saying that it was loading the 3ware drivers. sda currently contains a Mandrake 8.0 install on a RAID 1 volume (2x 20GB Maxtor). I wish to overwrite this . How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot from install CD 2.Also tried expert mode with same result. 3. Actual Results: As descibed above. Expected Results: Should have detected the drive properlyand let me continue with the install. Additional info: The system runs fine with Mandrake 8.0 (except for some stability problems, which is why I'm trying RH7.1). It will currently boot up the Mandrake install, so I'm pretty confident that the drives & controller are OK. Most of the Mandrake install is on ReiserFS if that matters. Some Specs: IWill KK266 AMD ThunderBird-C 1200 MHz 384 MB PC133 RAM 3ware Escalade 6200 IDE RAID controller 2x20 GB Maxtor 7200 RPM drives GeForce2 MX video Ensoniq 1371 based PCI sound card. CD, CDRW, Zip on onboard IDE controllers.
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.
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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