Linux confuses itself!??!?!?!

[Chooco]

i was with my buddy when he bought his new 40 gig hard drive, we went back to his house and installed it, his old hard drive is a 6.4 gig which he sold to me for 5 bucks because i know that it actually works, this hard drive has RedHat 7.1 on it. i bring it home and plug it in with the 7.1 install disk in the CD drive. it boots up and goes into the install procedures. after selecting to install a custom system it shows an error message "your hardware has an unrecognized file system" um?!?!?! WHAT! Linux RedHat can't even understand it's own damn partitions???

i put my Mandrake 8.0 CD in there and restart, i click on the advanced install and BOOM "unrecognized file system, replace hardware" so basically it's telling me that neither RedHat NOR Mandrake can understand a partition which was put on there by RedHat 7.1

wtf is wrong?

 

[skriefal]

First thought would be a difference in how the drive is set up in the BIOS. i.e. LBA vs non-LBA, etc. It also used to be true that some BIOSes would map a drive somewhat differently (# cylinders vs # heads, etc), preventing the drive from working correctly after being transferred from one PC to another. Not sure how common that is now, but perhaps that's what you've encountered. If so, then nuking all of the partitions and recreating them should allow you to use the drive.

 

[Chooco]

ok, disk druid fixed the problem. thanks

 

[GonzoDaGr8]

Linux confuses itself!??!?!?!

Can't say about confusing itself, but it confuses the hell out of me sometimes...

 

[Chooco]

i know that feelin bud

 

[Maverick7241]

Chooco! This is Praetorian. Geeze buddy, you're all over. How's it goin?

 

[Chooco]

i'm the world's bitch, i been around