can't boot fresh install

[Howard Wilkinson]

Alan Evans wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Alan Evans<ame.fedora at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Just did a fresh install of F11 on a P4. The SATA hard disk was
>> repatriated from a broken iMac.
>>
>> I didn't have install disks handy, so I downloaded the netinstall
>> image and installed the whole thing over my home DSL. This took nearly
>> a day and a half, and I don't want to repeat that process if I can
>> avoid it.
>>
>> I instructed anaconda to remove everything and use the whole drive.
>> The installer never complained of any trouble. When I went to reboot,
>> the system refused to recognize the hard drive as bootable. I jacked
>> around with BIOS settings to no avail. Finally, I booted from the
>> install CD and selected rescue mode.
>>
>> Rescue mode mounted /dev/sda2 on /mnt/sysimage. I looked and the
>> install appears intact.
>>
>> I ran fdisk on /dev/sda and it complained, "Device contains neither a
>> valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel." And then
>> further down, "Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 4 will
>> be corrected by w(rite)." There are no partitions listed when I select
>> "p" to do so.
>>
>> At this point, I'm petrified. What can be done to fix this and get
>> Fedora to boot?
>>     
>
> Ok, maybe I'm asking the wrong question...
>
> Does anybody have an idea why anaconda/rescue mode can find and mount
> my root partition on /dev/sda2, but fdisk can't even recognize that my
> disk has a partition table at all?
>
> -Alan
>
>   
Alan,

you are running fdisk on /dev/sda and not /dev/sda2?

Howard.

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