I have the same exact problem and have thru all of the betas.. But it is not a Mandrake problem.. I just installed RedHat 7.0 on the same machine with the same results. Now I have installed RH and Mandrake versions from 5.2 with nio problems.. Must be in the kernel... On Sun, 08 Oct 2000, you wrote: > > Pixel wrote: > > Hal Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On today's 7.2beta install, diskdrake is unable to detect partitions on > > > my IDE drives (primary and secondary) > > > > what is the error? looks like a hardware/kernel pb to me > > In the installer, it says something about being unable to read the > partition tables. In Diskdrake from Linux, I get no error message. The > drives still appear in diskdrake, but the partition table is just blank > white unpartitioned space. Clicking rescue partition table will bring > back the real partitions. > > I see the same symptoms when running diskdrake within Linux (not the > installler). diskdrake can't see the ide partition tables, but fdisk > sees them with no problem. Mandrake is also installed and running off > of these "invisible" partitions, so I don't think it's a hardware or > kernel problem. > > I also experienced a much nastier problem with this bug, when clicking > on the "rescue partition table" on a drive where I had an ext2 file > system not related to the install, and consented to a write of the > partition table (cancel wouldn't let me avoid it) I somehow lost all of > the data on that partition (oh the pain!). dd if=/dev/hdb5 now reports > a lot of nulls which was previously my data. I'm not sure if this is a > result of me telling it not to format that mount in the install, and it > ignoring me, or whether diskdrake does something when it writes a > partition table. I believe it is the latter because the format would > imply that it it created an ext2 filesystem, which is not there. ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature; name="smime.p7s" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature ----------------------------------------
