I have a system that I am trying to upgrade using drakx. The installer goes along merrily until it tries to figure out existing partitions.
On my system, the first scsi disk is the boot disk (sda) but I also have IDE disks in the same box (hda and hdc). The problem is that the IDE drives are used (by lvm) in their raw forms (hda and hdc) rather than putting partition tables on them. When the installer tries to find partition tables it starts with hda, and then complains that the paritition table is "too corrupt" for it. It then asks "Do you agree to lose all the partitions"? This question is a bit alarming but I assume benign, as it's really only saying that there were no partitions found on the disk. Perhaps something less alarming could be displayed. Anyway, I answered yes to the prompt and then I get "ask_before_blanking:unknown partition_table_format" and it's for disk hda. Clicking OK just brings the message up again. The installer is stuck there. It would seem to me that getting stuck on a disk which DrakX can't figure out the partition table for is pointless. Should it not just ignore the disk (until diskdrake -- because it does have LVM PVs on it) and go on to look on other disks for partitions? Is there any way to force DrakX to look at sda as the "primary"/"root" disk? Thanx, b. -- Brian J. Murrell
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