Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 8678
Installer does not recognize disk partitions
Last modified: 2015-01-07 18:40:46 EST
Machine: IBM THinkPad 600E The installation process fails as soon as it tries to create or use any disk partitions, with the message: "An error occurred reading the partition table for the block device hda. The error was: No such file or directory" I've tried on a non-partitioned disk space as well as on a partitioned disk (using Partition Magic 5.0 to create a Linux partition). A Linux forum has reported that a disk problem might occur with certain version of the 600E BIOS. I tried several BIOS versions and it still didn't work.
We actually had a machine demonstrating the same thing here in the office after the IS guy upgraded the BIOS, so I can confirm that it is happening, as well as confirm that it is related to the BIOS (the machine was running linux prior to the BIOS upgrade) I have sent email to him asking what BIOS version he ended up reverting to, so I will let you know as soon as I know. In the mean time, we were actually able to get the machine going using the latest boot images (beta boot images) available now from Red Hat. If you are interested, take a look at the beta and see if that works.
OK, I checked with our IS guy and he said that he flashed the BIOS to the latest revision and things worked from there. Please reopen the bug if you are still having problems.