Subject: Re: invalid partition table
To: Larry Colen <lrc@recourse.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/28/2001 13:43:45
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 02:21:18PM -0800, Larry Colen wrote:
> I was installing netbsd 1.5 on a Dell Poweredge 350 off the CDROM
> from Demon News.
> 
> It would complete the installation.
> I'd reboot and it would not even go into the kernel and would just
> display the message: 
> invalid partition table
> 
> It seemed to be fixed by rather than just using the whole disk, only
> installing a a part of the disk, which seemed to force the system to
> use a dos style partition table.
> 
> I don't know if anyone else has had this problem, or if it's
> considered a bug, or just the way things work (or don't work).

Doesn't sysinst display a warning about "whole disk" installs ?

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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