Problem in Partition table when installing FC3

[C. Linus Hicks]

On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 11:08 +1300, Steve Phillips wrote:
> If you use third party tools to create a non-standard partitioning 
> system then you can expect there to be problems especially if the system 
> used is not a recognised or established standard.
> 
> It appears that your partitioning system is such a system, I would 
> suggest you back everything up and then re-install (using a normal 
> partitioning scheme - 3 primary partitions and an extended partition and 
> then subpartitions within the extended partition), the error you are 
> getting will be (surpisingly) due to the installer being unable to read 
> your partition table and make sense of it.

Your partition table ordered by starting "cylinder" number:

  Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *         1      1045   8393931    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2          1046      8205  57505549+   f  Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
  /dev/hda5        1046      2320  10241406    7  HPFS/NTFS
  /dev/hda6        2321      3595  10241406    c  Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
  /dev/hda7        3596      4870  10241406    c  Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
  /dev/hda8        4871      5890   8193118+  83  Linux - data on RH9
  /dev/hda9        5891      6910   8193118+   7  HPFS/NTFS
  /dev/hda10       6911      7009    795154+  82  Linux swap
  /dev/hda3        7010      7022    104422+  83  Linux
  /dev/hda11       7023      7798   6228400+  83  Linux - Mandrake-10
  /dev/hda12       7798      8205   3266392+  83  Linux - Data on Mandrake 10
freespace          8206      8927
/dev/hda4          8928      9729   6442065   83  Linux - RH9

So what you have is a primary partition followed by an extended
partition followed by free space then another primary partition. I know
windows NT will let you create a scheme like that, but in general, disks
installed on PC compatible systems are expected to have the extended
partition as the last partition, that is, following all (up to three)
primary partitions.

If you have the option (with something like Partition Magic), you might
be able to fix it by moving hda2 and hda4 so that the above rule is not
violated.

Linus