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

[Lawrence Layman]

BOF-
        Whence cometh this wondrous boot floppy named Tom's, and how might
one procure one for one's own use?

Regards, Lawrence Layman

BOF wrote:

> 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.
> >
> >
>
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