A while back (Oct.,'06) a newbie ran into a problem with QtParted and manually editing a partition table. The topic died after a question was asked and no answer was forthcoming. Time for Round #2.
My main machine is multi-boot with 6 distros right now and is both my joy and my curse. In addition, I won an Acer Aspire 3003+ laptop a while ago and have been running it dual boot for a while now. There is a third partition I ceated for a trial of DSL, but it is not in use, as well as the swap partition. I refer to my laptop as TOM, and Tom, my totally obedient moron has a problem.
Right now it is running Mandriva 7 which I have had enough of. I have copied all my home directory data to the other large partition (Windoze, vfat) and then ran Feisty's install, only to find out that it cannot see anything on my hard drive! The specific error is "Critical error during ped_disk_new". It wants to start from scratch and erase my data - both copies!
I rebooted into Mandriva, which is running perfectly. QtParted has the same error, even though it is running from a partition it can't see. BTW, all the partitions have been checked and the filesystems, at least, appear to be fine. If anyone has any thoughts, I would appreciate all the help I can get, otherwise I can't get Feisty to install.
The Geekosaur
"There is one medical condition that will afflict all of mankind sooner or later. It is called the Furniture Syndrome, which becomes noticeable when your chest falls into your drawers."
My main machine is multi-boot with 6 distros right now and is both my joy and my curse. In addition, I won an Acer Aspire 3003+ laptop a while ago and have been running it dual boot for a while now. There is a third partition I ceated for a trial of DSL, but it is not in use, as well as the swap partition. I refer to my laptop as TOM, and Tom, my totally obedient moron has a problem.
Right now it is running Mandriva 7 which I have had enough of. I have copied all my home directory data to the other large partition (Windoze, vfat) and then ran Feisty's install, only to find out that it cannot see anything on my hard drive! The specific error is "Critical error during ped_disk_new". It wants to start from scratch and erase my data - both copies!
I rebooted into Mandriva, which is running perfectly. QtParted has the same error, even though it is running from a partition it can't see. BTW, all the partitions have been checked and the filesystems, at least, appear to be fine. If anyone has any thoughts, I would appreciate all the help I can get, otherwise I can't get Feisty to install.
The Geekosaur
"There is one medical condition that will afflict all of mankind sooner or later. It is called the Furniture Syndrome, which becomes noticeable when your chest falls into your drawers."
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