Someone may be able to answer this better than me, but I believe that
linux must start in the first 4000 blocks, or maybe it's the first 4 gigs
of a hard drive in order to boot. I ran into this problem myself when I
tried to get win98 and slackware to share a large hard drive.
Jennifer
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Peter Guzikowski wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm trying to install 7.2 on an AMD Thunderbird with an ASUS A7V mother board. I
>have a hard drive where 20 out of 30Gb are used for Windows, which is working just
>fine. I have saved the remaining unpartitioned 10Gb for Linux. When I try to install
>7.2 however, I get the following message when I reach the point in the installation
>program where I'm supposed to partition the hard drive and set up the filesystem: "An
>error has occured - no valid devices were found on which to create new filesystems.
>Please check your hardware for the couse of this problem". And then I can't do
>anything else than just exit the install. I've tried to boot directly from the CD,
>from a boot disk, I've tried to run text mode install and in expert mode, but nothing
>works.
>
