The partition table on device sdb was unreadable - common issue HPA ?

David Timms dtimms at iinet.net.au
Sun Jan 6 03:11:43 UTC 2008


Dave Cross wrote:
> I'm trying to do a new F8 installation on a system that is currently
> running F7. Th system has two SATA disks. The first (sda) is 160 GB
> and contains the boot partition, the swap and an LV which mounts /.
> The second disk (sdb) is 320 GB and contains another logical volume
> group containing two LVs, one for /home and one for /data.
> 
> What I'd like to do is to reinstall onto / but leave all of the data
> in /home and /data untouched.
> 
> But when the installation routine gets to the section where it starts
> to look at the disk partitions, it gives and error saying "The
> partition table on device sdb was unreadable". And it then won't let
> me set the mount points for the data LVs or mark them not to be
> formatted.
> 
> That doesn't seem to be a problem for the existing installation. That
> can read the partition table without any problems.
Sounds like the Host Protected Area issue. Take a look at the common 
issues wiki page:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/F8Common?action=show#head-6908d00fe8346c4da773d32c5d1aaf3415d9713f

"Partition table claimed to be invalid on previously working drive"

DaveT.




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