[KLUG Members] New installation

[Adam Williams]

>Well, remember when I said I had the Redhat 7.3 install figured out?  I
>lied. My SuSE 7.1 will install just fine, but Redhat 7.3 can't seem to
>write a partition table.  Every partitioning operation takes about 5
>minutes, but seems to finish.  Once everything is done I get an error
>that it can't reread the partition table from /tmp/hda because the
>device is busy.  After that a fatal error: can't continue.

Can you boot rescue and do an hdparm on hda to see what defaults are being
selected?

>I'm sure there's nothing wrong with the drive because it worked fine
>under Windows 2000 until recently, and I can install my SuSE 7.1 without
>any problems.  I've upgraded the BIOS to the most recent (which isn't
>very), and I've tried the install on a much newer motherboard.  I've
>also tried writing a new MBR to the drive from a DOS boot disk. Nothing makes
>any difference.  This sound like a canidate for monthly install-fest?
>Hardware details below.
>AMD K6-2 500Mhz
>128 Megs memory (PC133 running as PC100, I think)
>ASUS P5-A (ALI super-7 chipset)
>Cdrom is an ancient Toshiba 4X IDE, but it boots fine
>IBM Deskstar GXP 20 Gig
>Intel Pro100+ PCI NIC (82557 chip)

What drive related parameters are selected?  LBA, UDMA, etc...

>both drives are master of their own channel

Good choice