Hi Stephen,
I saw the exactly the same problem with a SL305 install onto an old
laptop and eventually concluded that the hard disk had become faulty.
Regards,
Will
On Sat, 17 Mar 2007, Stephen J. Gowdy wrote:
Hi All,
Sorry for the off topic question but thought I might get an answer
quicker here. I'm trying to install RHEL5 on a machine (currently running
RHEL3) it has trouble reading the partition table somehow. I can read it fine
with fdisk after pushing ALT-F2 to get the shell up. Is there a limit in the
number of partitions anaconda understands? Here is the partition table;
Disk /dev/hde: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hde1 * 1 33 265041 83 Linux
/dev/hde2 34 4865 38813040 5 Extended
/dev/hde5 1107 4865 30194136 83 Linux
/dev/hde6 845 1106 2104515 83 Linux
/dev/hde7 34 582 4409779+ 83 Linux
/dev/hde8 583 713 1052226 83 Linux
/dev/hde9 714 844 1052226 82 Linux swap
Originally it was out of order but I fixed that and it still has the problem.
The message starts "partition table on device hda was unreadable" (this device
is hda during the installation), it wants you to create a new partition table.
I'd rather not as I want to keep some partitions after the reinstall.
Any ideas?
regards,
Stephen.
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