Subject: Re: "Invalid Partition Table"
To: Jon Lindgren <jlindgren@slk.com>
From: Bruce Lane <kyrrin@bluefeathertech.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/21/2001 23:39:19
At 09:16 21-06-2001 -0400, Jon Lindgren wrote:

>On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Frank van der Linden wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 10:45:50PM -0700, Bruce Lane wrote:
>> > 	Or so I thought. When it tried to boot, I got 'Invalid Partition Table.'
>> 
>> The MBR code will print this if 1) it could not find any partitions
>> at all, or 2) there is no partition active. You may have forgotten
>> to mark a partition active.
>
>I also found that my Proliant 5000 will print this when there is a
>"gap" in the partition table.  When 1.5 installs, it installs to partition
>3 (0 is used by Compaq Utilities), leaving 1 and 2 "empty".  Even
>remarking 3 as active didn't work for me.  Booting a floppy and using
>fdisk to move partition 3 to 1 (then marking 1 active) worked like a
>charm.  I took it to be a Compaq oddity.

	It is. I tried redoing things tonight, and found that the trick was to
select 'Use a portion of the disk' during NetBSD setup instead of telling
it to use the whole disk. This allowed me to preserve the Compaq system
partition, and to install NetBSD on partition 1 as others had suggested.

	Now, if only Andrew or someone else can figure out why EISA support for
the SMART-2 array controllers doesn't work...


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