1 Topic by RockyRoad (edited by RockyRoad 2007-01-21 15:49:49)

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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

2 Reply by LarryT

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Re: My partition table is not loaded :-(

As you can see with the (very) good output yu gave us, sda2 is contains in sda4 , which is *very* bad, and exactly called "overlaping" !

/dev/sda2   *          92        5219    41190660    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4              11        9153    73441147+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)

from 92 to 5219, you have two partitions overlaped ! Which is not good tongue

Well there is real mess !

The problem is : i dont know how to go out of this. ... :-/

Larry
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Re: My partition table is not loaded :-(

Well, in fact, i think the best would be to remove ntfs partition, but i dont know, what this will give after :-/

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Re: My partition table is not loaded :-(

Thanks for your quick answer, and explanation.
I'll work on that. Maybe the boot partition wasn't necessary ?