Run PM5 and use it to check your partitions for errors.
>From: "Mark Lilly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: "Linux MailList" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: [newbie] Failed Installation
>Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 15:58:04 -0500
>
>Hello,
>I successfully installed Linux in the following configuration:
>
>1. Make: IBM Thinkpad laptop
>2. Model: 600 E
>3. Processor: Intel PII 366 MHz
>4. RAM: 64 MB
>5. Video: NeoMagic MagicMedia256AV
>6. Audio: Cirrus Logic CS4610 (per Linux Probe)
>7. Kernal Version: 2.2.13-7mdk
>
>This was on my work laptop in a dual-boot configuration with Win98 and NT
>4.0 using System Commander on a 4 partition, 6 GB hard drive. I had not
>booted into Linux for about 3 weeks but I recently tried to boot and found
>that I am not only unable to boot the system, I can't even re-install
>Linux. The installation gets to the "Setup filesystems" part of the
>installation and then fails. If I try to use Disk Druid to configure the
>ext2 partition, I get the error message "Fdisk error: An error occurred
>reading the partition table for the block device /tmp/hda. The error was:
>Device not configured". If I use fdisk to configure the partition I get
>"Partition Disks: /dev/hda - Model (none) - Model (none)" and, upon hitting
>Return, the Installation process gets stuck. Additionally, after
>attempting a partition creation using fdisk, I get an error message "Reboot
>Needed: The kernal is unable to read your new partitioning information,
>probably because you modified extended partitions...". Note: Both the
>System partition and the Swap partition were placed in an extended
>partition in the original installation that worked.
>
>This appears to be a problem with the partition table. The only thing I
>can think that I changed since I last booted into Linux was that I
>installed Partition Magic 5.0 on the NT partition. The weird thing is that
>Partition Magic could see the Linux System partition as well as the Swap
>partition from inside NT. However, Linux cannot see the partitons even
>after I deleted them to "Free Space" and attempted a new installation.
>
>Any help with getting Linux to see this Free Space again so that I can
>re-install would be greatly appreciated.
>
>- Mark
>
>
>
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