Can't get fdisk to see my disk correctly

[Tunnelrat]

Got a question - I boot up fine, even printed out the instructions from the site - I keep getting the same error when in fdisk; it sees my 2nd hard drive as having all BSD partitions (they aren't, they're ext2fs partitions). When I try to change anything, I'm kicked out of fdisk with "segmentation fault." I'd really like to try this distro, but I'm about ready to give up and buy Mandrake or some darned thing (currently running Vector Linux, quite nice if vanilla)...

[Guest]

hmmmm that seems very weird.

can you delete all the partitions on the 2nd drive, and leave it blank for gentoo to partition ? use win2k or partition magic or another linux distro.

the segmentation fault is bizarre..

are you booting from 1.2 or 1.1a? or i686 stage 3 built disk ?

what's your hardware?

hope we can get it sorted out.. gentoo rox

[jouzts]

I was never able to get Gentoo or SuSE 8.0 to deal with an old Samsung ~10G, although SuSE 7.3 installed fine. fdisk acted as though it could not recognize the disk even when reformated several different ways with the older SuSE fdisk.

John

[Mr_Ust]

I'm having the same problem installing Gentoo. My primary drive is currently set to have two partitions, but fdisk doesn't recognize it. I get an error message saying that there are 16 partitions and the maximum allowed is 8. Most of them are showing up as BSD. When I try to erase one, fdisk Seg faults.

I was running Slackware 8.0 prior to this, and fdisk was giving me the same type of problem. Using cfdisk fixed it up, but cfdisk is not included with the base Gentoo install.

Does anyone else have any idea what could be causing this?

To the original poster: What kind of hard drive do you have? I'm using a 30gig Maxtor 7200rpm.

[Mr_Ust2]

Just wanted to give anyone who's interested an update. I was able to use the fdisk version I had lying around on an old Slackware 4.0 cd to partition my drives properly.

Looks like it could be a bug that has crept into fdisk since that release.

Someone *else* should follow up on this

I'm up and running with a base install...

System:
Athlon 1333
Maxtor 30gig 7200rpm
ATI Radeon 7200 VIVO 64MB DDR
SBLive Value
KT133 chipset
etc... etc...