I have several machines with the following drive in them: [root@winsucks root]# hdparm -i /dev/hda /dev/hda: Model=SAMSUNG SV2001H, FwRev=QN100-07, SerialNo=0399J1DRA16750 Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs } RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=38997, SectSize=619, ECCbytes=4 BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=1945kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16 CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=39179952 IORDY=yes, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120} PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5 AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled Drive conforms to: ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D revision 1: 1 2 3 4 5 6 [root@winsucks root]# On the first of these machines which I tried upgrading from 8.0 to beta4, I got an error message: "partition table of unexpected type loop for your arch" I was only able to install beta4 by re-initializing the partition table and doing a fresh install. Upgrading was not an option.
That's from parted, but if you've blown it away, there's a good chance that there's not much more that can be done for it now :/
I've still got a room full of the machines running 8.0, so if it's at all reproducible I should be able to do so ;-)
can you reproduce this and make sure to get the partition table off the drive with "dd if=/dev/hda of=bs.bin count=2048 count=1" ?
any luck?
I'll try to reproduce it when I'm back in town from this business trip....
Thanks.
I'll get back next Wed or Thursday (maybe later if we have more @#$% snow like I encountered trying to get to Boston ;-)
Any luck?
I just tried on another one of the machines -- it upgraded successfully
I'm going to close this out. I can't reproduce it on the two boxes I've tried, so there's not a lot you can do about whatever might have caused it the first time....