Hi Peter, Considering that my old version of fdisk (from RedHat 6.0.1) worked fine, i would assume that this problem is fairly recent. I must admit i'm still a little doubtful as to whether this really is an fdisk bug - surely more people than just the two of us would have encountered it? It also seems a little weird that it just affects removable media and my (non-removable) hard disk drive. :-) Also, your garbage fdisk output is a bit different to mine. The results i was getting seemed to suggest fdisk detecting multiple BSD disklabels (as far as i can tell, the error message originates from this part of the source code). I'm wondering whether my problems could be caused by my HDD geometry being incorrectly detected as this is the only thing i've not checked out yet... I'll have a look at that tonight. If this is a bug, then who do we report it to? SuSE? Or is fdisk maintained independently? (Excuse my ignorance...) Finally, can you think of a work-around that would allow me to install SuSE? Is it possible to start yast, then exit and setup my partitions "by hand" from a shell (using my old fdisk) before restarting yast to continue the install procedure? Jon Quoting "Peter B. Van Campen" <pbvanca@ameritech.net>:
YES!!! I have been having trouble mounting removable media such as LS- 120 super floppies and SCSI Read/Write Magneto Optical cartridges (RWMO). I was able to mount these in SuSE 6.3 once I read the SuSE Support Database article on Iomega ZIP drives showing that you need to mount the fourth partition; i.e.. "sdb4" "hdb4"
BUT now in SuSE 7.1 "fdisk -l /dev/sdb" shows crazy output on these removable cartridges.
fdisk -l output: [ - snipped - ]
This is a DOS formatted cart (128MB) that works fine in W98. This output is clearly wrong!
The output of fdisk -l on an LS-120 DOS formatted floppy is similarly confused.
I have asked this quest on this list before and got no responses.
I think we have found a REAL BUG!
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