Subject: Re: SATA: "unknown partition table" error, fdisk can't fix, works in 2.6.13

From: Timur Tabi <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:29:58 -0500

Chris Boot wrote:
> Timur,
> 
> fdisk manipulates DOS-style partition maps. Have you compiled these into 
> your latest kernel? You don't actually have any errors in the below 
> messages, other than the partition map being unreadable...

Yes, that was it!  Thank you very much.  All I had to do was select "PC BIOS (MSDOS partition tables) support" configuration option, and that was it.

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Timur Tabi
Linux Kernel Developer @ Freescale