Topic: My partition table is not loaded :-(
Hi all,
I'd like to install Ubuntu over a Mandriva distrib, as dual boot, on my laptop (Dell Inspiron 640m).
But gparted doesn't recognize my partition table, and installation aborts.
I tried booting with latest GParted Live CD, with no more success.
The hard drive (/dev/sda , ST98823AS , 80 GB), is detected, but shows a single "unallocated" partition.
Here's the partition table, as seen by fdisk:
Disk /dev/sda: 78.5 GB, 78518522880 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9546 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 10 80293+ 6 FAT16
/dev/sda2 * 92 5219 41190660 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 9154 9545 3148740 db CP/M / CTOS / ...
/dev/sda4 11 9153 73441147+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 11 91 650601 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 5220 7799 20723818+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda7 7800 7900 811251 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 7901 8080 1445818+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda9 8081 8464 3084448+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda10 8465 8597 1068291 83 Linux
/dev/sda11 8598 9027 3453943+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda12 9028 9153 1012063+ 83 Linux
Partition table entries are not in disk order
root@GParted:~# parted -v
GNU Parted 1.7.1
root@GParted:~# parted /dev/sda print
Error: Can't have overlapping partitions.
Information: Don't forget to update /etc/fstab, if necessary.
I guess the problem is about partition order, or maybe that db type partition.
This sda3 is the "Dell System Restore" partition, pr