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.
Hi Stephen,
I don't know the whole answer to the question, but I do know that it can
see at least 14 partitions, and I believe it can see more.
Troy
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