Valid Partition Tables Can't be read by (some) Installers

[cornel panceac]

2008/10/11 Alan Cox <alan at redhat.com>

> On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 02:15:51AM -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
> wrote:
> > Rawhide and Ubuntu 8.10 beta can't read the partition table on
> > my first SATA hard drive.  Yet fdisk can read and write them
> > without problem.
> >
>
btw, is any partition using the last cylinder?


>
> > Apparently there is some limit on the number of partitions the
> > installer's partition setup can deal with, or some other brain
> > damage.
>
> If you have more than I think its 15 partitions you will only see the first
> 15 but you will get those.
>
> But on the positive side handling for very large numbers of partitions on
> ATA disks went upstream yesterday 8)
>
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