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Strange Hard Drive Behavior on install

Asked by jkipp_66 in Linux Setup

Tags: read, cfdisk, install

I am trying install Slackware on a Machine (P3 -500) with a fresh 10GB Maxtor Hard drive. It boots up fine with the Slackware 9 CD, but when I try to fdisk it, I get:
"You will not be able to write to the partition table. The table device contains niether a valid DOS,..., Disklabel.
Building a new DOS disk label....

Warning: Invalid flag 0x0000 on partiton table 4 that will be corrected to write."

So I make a partition and write it, it exits with no problem. But when I boot back up or run setup, none of the info is there.
If I run cfdisk, I get "Open disk read only" and I can't even save any changes in that program.

So.. I bootup with a DOS bootdisk and it has no problem with making DOS partitions and formatting them. But when I go back to Linux, the same thing happens. It sees the DOS partition, but if I delete it or try to add more partitions, it won't save or write() the changes.
Then I installed Win2k on of the FAT partitons, again no problem at all with that. I put the Linux CD back in, run fdisk and I get the same problem.

Before installing DOS/Win I tried to 0 out the MBR with dd and that failes as well.

Any ideas?

Thanks

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Strange Hard Drive Behavior on install

Asked by jkipp_66 in Linux Setup

Tags: read, cfdisk, install

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