Try using disk manager form NT, delete the partition, and then execute linux
install again.
Mark Lilly wrote:
> Did that before I sent this e-mail. No errors.
>
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> From: M Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Failed Installation
> Date: Monday, January 31, 2000 5:01 PM
>
> 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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