[lug] SuSE 7.2 Error: "Unsupported partition table"

[John Karns]

On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, BOF said:

> When I attempt to install SuSE, it does sees the existing partitions
> during boot up, but then does not see them when it comes time to
> partition the drive. I issued instructions to set it up as above, and
> when it tries to begin installing software, the process fails with the
> error message:
>
>     "The disk has an unsupported partition table. Please repartition
> disk /dev/hdb."

It seems to me that the msg may be somwhat misleading.  I've experienced
some similar problems when IDE - SCSI emulation (can't remember if it was
modules or integrated) were interfering and changing the device to
/dev/srN.  Although I wasn't seeing an "unsupported partition table"
error, attempts to mount were generating "no such device" or similar.
IOW, check the kernel configuration especially wrt which modules are 
being loaded.

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John Karns                                        jkarns at csd.net