Hi While formatting the hard drive, during Linux installation, give linear as a parameter for the partition. SCSI disks and ide hard disk using the bios parameter of LBA require the linear param to be specified.
Regards Rashik -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of SATHISH.J Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 4:23 PM To: Bala subramanian Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIH] error reading partition table while installing linux Hi, I have read somewhere that linux boot partition cannot be after 1500 cylinders. May this is the reason you get the error message. Regards, Sathish.J Systems Engineer Tata Infotech Limited 80 Feet Road Indra Nagar Bangalore-560 038. On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Bala subramanian wrote: > Hi, > I installed windows 98 in my machine having SCSI > hard disk 8.5GB, I have tried installing linux in my > another partition of the same disk, but while > installing linux it is giving error as error reading partition table, > how to solve this error ?? > > Thanks, > Bala > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. > http://personals.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help > _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
