Re: parted giving wrong information

[Andrew Clausen]

On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 12:49:40PM -0400, Rohit wrote:
>  The redhat setup (disk druid) uses parted for hard disk information. I am 
> unable to install redhat because parted is giving wrong information about the 
> hard disk, while mandrake or any else linux distro is installing fine.
> 
> Please see the pic where fdisk shows /dev/hda1 as windows partition

Is it really a windows partition?  (i.e. is windows installed?)

> and parted 
> shows it as a swap partition and because of the same problem I am unable to 
> install anything.

This is strange.  Perhaps there's a stale linux-swap signature.
Try running:

        # dd if=/dev/hda1 bs=512 count=16 | xxd | less

And search for "SWAP".  If you find it, could you send me the first
bit of the partition?

        # dd if=/dev/hda1 bs=512 count=16 of=fat-swap.img

Thanks,
Andrew