Stephen J. Gowdy wrote:
> Hi All,
>       Sorry for the off topic question but thought I might get an answer 
> quicker here. I'm trying to install RHEL5 on a machine (currently 
> running RHEL3) it has trouble reading the partition table somehow. I can 
> read it fine with fdisk after pushing ALT-F2 to get the shell up. Is 
> there a limit in the number of partitions anaconda understands? Here is 
> the partition table;
> 
> Disk /dev/hde: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> 
>      Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hde1   *         1        33    265041   83  Linux
> /dev/hde2            34      4865  38813040    5  Extended
> /dev/hde5          1107      4865  30194136   83  Linux
> /dev/hde6           845      1106   2104515   83  Linux
> /dev/hde7            34       582   4409779+  83  Linux
> /dev/hde8           583       713   1052226   83  Linux
> /dev/hde9           714       844   1052226   82  Linux swap
> 
> Originally it was out of order but I fixed that and it still has the 
> problem. The message starts "partition table on device hda was 
> unreadable" (this device is hda during the installation), it wants you 
> to create a new partition table. I'd rather not as I want to keep some 
> partitions after the reinstall.
>       Any ideas?
> 
>                           regards,
> 
>                           Stephen.
> 

Hi Stephen,
I don't know the whole answer to the question, but I do know that it can 
see at least 14 partitions, and I believe it can see more.
Troy
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