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

[Eric Sandeen]

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.

Rawhide & ubuntu use very different installers, interesting that they'd
both fail.

How does anaconda fail, details?

> Apparently there is some limit on the number of partitions the
> installer's partition setup can deal with, or some other brain
> damage.

How many partitions do you have in total, if you think that's the issue?

Thanks,
-Eric