[CLUE-Tech] SuSE 7.2 Error: "Unsupported partition table"

[BOF]

I used Tom's RootBoot floppy (which I am becoming to be quite fond of) 
and overwrote the partition table as you suggested.
SuSe was then able to install itself and is now up and running.

I can only conjecture that a previous program, such as OpenBSD or Gentoo 
Linux (using ext3) overwrote the partition table and somehow changed it 
so that SuSE would not see it. I find this somewhat improbable as both 
Slack and RedHat using ext2 have been installed on the drive since then.

Or maybe it's a bug, or even a feature. Quien Sabe?     ;-)

Thanx for the help.

BOF

Dave Hahn wrote:

> I haven't run into this on SuSE, but I have seen this problem.  I've 
> fixed it by:
> 1) Booting off a live file system CD.  I've used slackware with great 
> success.
> 2) run 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdb count=512'
> 3) Reboot and repartition
>
> The dd command overwrites the portion of the drive that contains the 
> partition table (/dev/hdb NOT /dev/hdb1) with zeros.  Giving you a 
> nice, certainly blank, partition table with which to work.
>
>