From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.10-ac4 i686) Description of problem: I have a build/test machine (Dell Precision 410 workstation with a 60 gig Seagate IDE disk + 8 gig ultra2 scsi disk) that has many different OSes on it for building GCC. With partition magic, I created all of the different partitions. The layout is /dev/hda1 is a 2 gig FAT16 partition for Windows 98, /dev/hda2 is 100MB /boot partition for the Linuxes, /dev/hda5 is a 5 gig NTFS partition for Windows NT, /dev/hda6 is a 5 gig FAT32 partition for Windows 2000 Professional, /dev/hda7 is a 5 gig FAT32 partition for Windows XP Professional, /dev/hda8 is a 2 gig Linux swap partition, /dev/hda9 is a 5 gig partition for Red Hat 7.1, /dev/hda10 is a 5 gig partition for Red Hat 7.2, /dev/hda11 is a 5 gig partition reserved for the next Red Hat Linux, /dev/hda12 is a 2 gig ext2 partition for /home, /dev/hda13 is a 10 gig ext2 Linux build partition, and /dev/hda14 is a 10 gig FAT32 Windows build partition. Anyway, I first installed Windows 98, then Red Hat 7.1, then Windows 2000, then Windows XP, and then Red Hat 7.2. When I got to Red Hat 7.2, Disk Druid did not like the partition tables after Windows 2000/XP had been installed, and thought there were many zero sized partitions. If I use fdisk instead of Disk druid, it sees all of the partitions just fine, which is what I did. However, I suspect many people are not comfortable with fdisk, so you probably will get this question, time and again, and should fix the next release of Red Hat Linux to better cope with it. Note, all of the Windows OSes I used are licensed, stand-alone versions (ie, not updates). Windows 98 and Windows 2000 are from retail boxes, and Windows XP is an OEM version I bought when buying the 60 gig disk. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create multiple logical partitions on disk. 2. Install Windows XP Professional into one of the logical partitions. 3. Try to install Red Hat 7.2 and use Disk Druid. 4. Look at the partitions that Disk Druid sees. 5. Compare partitions with what fdisk sees. 6. In #4, you should see 0-sized partitions that you don't see in #5. Actual Results: Lots of spurious partitions that disk druid sees. Expected Results: You should see the partitions like fdisk sees them. Additional info:
We have tested dual booting with both Windows 2000 and XP (a beta version). In all of these tests, we used the Windows partitioning tool to make a partition, leaving blank space at the end of the drive for Linux. We then did an install of 7.2 using Disk Druid, and saw no problems at all. I have a feeling that something is wrong with the way Partition Magic created the partitions. Can you attach the output of 'fdisk -l /dev/hda' on this system?
Here is the output from fdisk -l /dev/hda: -build-rh72-> fdisk -l /dev/hda Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 7297 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 260 2088418+ 6 FAT16 /dev/hda2 261 286 208845 83 Linux /dev/hda3 287 7297 56315857+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 287 923 5115888 6 FAT16 /dev/hda6 924 1560 5116671 b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hda7 1561 2197 5116671 b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hda8 2198 2446 2000061 82 Linux swap /dev/hda9 2447 3083 5116671 83 Linux /dev/hda10 3084 3720 5116671 83 Linux /dev/hda11 3721 4357 5116671 83 Linux /dev/hda12 4358 4603 1975963+ 83 Linux /dev/hda13 4604 6005 11261533+ 83 Linux /dev/hda14 6006 7297 10377958+ b Win95 FAT32 As I mentioned, fdisk during the boot process had no problem with the disk layout, only disk druid.
Matt, is this a parted problem?
What does parted say if you run it on this disk and say "print"?
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