From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90) Description of problem: My first hard drive contains Windows ME, I want to install Linux on my second hard drive. As I go into the partitioning setup, I get a message stating "The partition table on /tmp/hda is inconsistent. Linux may have detected the BIOS geometry incorrectly." It tells me i can choose to ignore the error or cancel setup, when I ignore the error, the next screen says "Warning: The partition table on device hda was unreadable." I then have the option to initialize the drive & loose Windows ME, naturally I select "No". The next screen gives me an Unhandled Exception error. See results section below. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Enter partitioning setup 2. "Ignore" unreadabe partition table message 3. Choose not to initialize hda (and loose Win ME). Actual Results: Summary: Anaconda: An unhandled exception has occured Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 633, in ? intf.run(id, dispatch, configFileData) File "/usr/src/build/90289-i386/install//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 427, in run File "/usr/src/build/90289-i386/install//usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 144, in gotoNext File "/usr/src/build/90289-i386/install//usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 209, in moveStep File "/usr/src/build/90289-i386/install//usr/lib/anaconda/partitioning.py", line 1586, in partitionMethodSetup File "/usr/src/build/90289-i386/install//usr/lib/anaconda/partitioning.py", line 1571, in setProtected TypeError: attribute-less object (assign or del) I have attached the full dump. Expected Results: I expected to be able to leave hda alone, partition hdb, then continue setup. Additional info: hda is partitioned as follows: 1.8GB primary FAT32 partition 7GB extended partition with 2 logical drives = 5.2GB FAT32 and 1.8GB FAT
Created attachment 64467 [details] Traceback dump
By the way, I've tried running scandisk and fdisk /mbr
I fixed the problem. It was caused by me having a mix of FAT32 and FAT16 partitions on hda. once I made my 2nd logical drive FAT32 everything went fine. Sorry for the trouble.
Still sounds like a problem - could you give us a list of the partitions and their FAT-types when you were having a problem please?
hda was partitioned as follows: 1.8GB primary FAT32 partition 7GB extended partition with 2 logical drives = 5.2GB FAT32 and 1.8GB FAT16
Thank you.
I've tried to reproduce this without any success.
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