Linux halts at partition check before installation starts.

KiLLaWaBBiT · 03-28-2003, 09:50 AM

Hey all, i've tried installing numerous distro's on my secondary machine and they all halt at when checking the hda0 partition.
I've tried re-partitioning and formatting the drive several times but nothing seems to work. It's a fujitsu 20gb.

newbieME · 03-28-2003, 12:28 PM

it might be that you are partitioning ur hdd wrong...post info on how u partitioning it..but is this a new hdd? i am guessing no considering it's size, and were you able to install other os on this hdd like windows for instance??

david_ross · 03-28-2003, 12:40 PM

There is a known fault with some batches fujitsu drives. I have a DOS utility that checks the integrity of the drive. Give me you e-mail address and I'll send it to you.

KiLLaWaBBiT · 03-29-2003, 06:52 AM

I use fdisk to partition my disk, i usually have 60% of my drive for a primary fat partition, and i leave the other 40% untouched and let red-hat do the rest.
Oh and yes, i've had numerous windows installs on it without a hitch.

david_ross · 03-29-2003, 07:01 AM

E-mail on it's way - you may want to remove your e-mail address now.

I don't know if your drive will be affected but I work for the NHS and we bought a large number of computers from Elonex with bad drives and this is the utility we were given to test them.

KiLLaWaBBiT · 03-29-2003, 08:05 AM

Thanks a lot david, i'll give it a try and let you know what happens.

KiLLaWaBBiT · 03-29-2003, 08:19 AM

Well it tells me that the drive is fine, so i guess i'm back to square 1

newbieME · 03-29-2003, 10:37 AM

maybe instead of letting red hat for the parition for you, did you try using fdisk to actually set up the partition manually??

KiLLaWaBBiT · 03-29-2003, 11:26 AM

No, but i have used partition magic to set up a linux partition before, and that didn't work either. *Shrugs*

newbieME · 03-29-2003, 11:29 AM

heh partition magic right now can't even detect any of my partition properly...it says i don't even have my linux partition and my xp partition is gone....i use parition manager that came with sys commander for resizing my parition, it's really good..anyways try using fdisk manually....make a linux boot disk with fdisk and use that....

KiLLaWaBBiT · 03-29-2003, 01:42 PM

Ok i'll give it a go.

whansard · 03-29-2003, 02:14 PM

you don't have a 20gig hard drive in an old machine
with a master boot record utility to make your machine
see the whole drive do you?
or a master boot record virus that moved the mbr?

KiLLaWaBBiT · 03-29-2003, 07:05 PM

Nope the machine isn't that old (P3 733, 256mbs DDR), and if it was a virus it would be gone now anyway as i wiped the drive the day before last

mayank · 08-20-2003, 12:26 PM

i am having the same problem ... my parition's:
http://www.mgzhome.com/data/my_drives2.jpg

any solution ?

i have the hdd2 which hangs in parition check, its segate 40 GB ...