[SOLVED] partition not showing up

decodedthought · 02-22-2011, 05:38 AM

I have a Hp G-56-122US Laptop and I am attempting to install fedora 14 on one of the partitions.
I have 3 partitions (100Gb,160 and 40) and I intend installing fedora on the 40gb partition but the problem is when I use Live USB and try to install fedora it shows the 40gb and 100 together as one partition. but in windows 7 it shows up as 2 different partition.
what do I do?
edit:
and there is one more thing it shows the Bios partitions as well.. an 8mb and a 200mb which has folders named hp bios... (whereas in Ubuntu these partitions don't appear)

bigrigdriver · 02-22-2011, 10:07 AM

As a first step in sorting this out, please show us the output of "fdisk -l" so that we can see what the Fedora and Ubuntu partitioners see about the size and order on partitions.

decodedthought · 02-22-2011, 11:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bigrigdriver

As a first step in sorting this out, please show us the output of "fdisk -l" so that we can see what the Fedora and Ubuntu partitioners see about the size and order on partitions.

the output of fdisk -l

Code:

Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders, total 625142448 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x4be9bcc0

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1              63        2047         992+  42  SFS
/dev/sda2   *        2048      409599      203776   42  SFS
/dev/sda3          409600   309069823   154330112   42  SFS
/dev/sda4       624928768   625140399      105816   42  SFS

Disk /dev/sdb: 8000 MB, 8000110592 bytes
160 heads, 19 sectors/track, 5139 cylinders, total 15625216 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *          32    15625215     7812592    b  W95 FAT32

Disk /dev/dm-0: 3221 MB, 3221225472 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 391 cylinders, total 6291456 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000


Disk /dev/dm-1: 3221 MB, 3221225472 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 391 cylinders, total 6291456 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

MWH · 06-20-2011, 09:37 PM

@decodedthought
I can not figure out how did you solve this problem? Please tell, because one of my friends also having similar kind of problem.