On 4/19/10, Gudmund Areskoug wrote:

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I tried to install openSUSE[0] on ASUS EEEPC 1201T[1]. This openSUSE (x86-64) Live CD boot well to KDE desktop, and then installing it through 'Live Installer' but failed after rebooting, it was said:

"No valid Partition (NTFS or FAT32)"

Trying to switch to 'Native IDE' or 'IDE->AHCI' in BIOS did not helped.

BIOS / ASUS issue?

Sounds like a laptop issue, had that/similar on a few laptops. BIOS or boot menu solved it for me in all cases (so far).

Thanks for nice hints, but then now i find the mistake: I did not delete all partitions (to make new partition table, and fixing MBR) that has existed before; one that has pre-installed ASUS Express-Gate (AEG) (FAT32), and the second was the empty NTFS partition. I just deleted the second partition and then added new linux (ext4) and swap partition, the AEG partition still existed. I don't know why the openSUSE (oS)-Installer failed to set boot-loader/GRUB (only installing it) in the MBR so the issue appeared: the MBR still pointed to AEG (early partition table), so it was said: "No valid Partition (NTFS or FAT32)" The issue is resolved by fixing the MBR (I did it by installing windows 7 --never tried win-xp, and then deleted it through oS-Installer), then re-partitioning the hard disk. Thanks Listmates. Best regards, -- Andi Sugandi (Bandung) openSUSE Ambassador http://en.opensuse.org/User:Andisugandi -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org