Error when installing -1012

**mingus725** · 16-Feb-2009, 11:12

It sounds like the openSUSE partitioning tool is encountering something unexpected with the partition table and/or disk geometries. Are you using Vista? Check your bios setup for a setting named something like disk "access mode" probably with the choices Auto, CHS, Large, and LBA; what is that set to? Then I need you to boot the DVD into Rescue System, login as root, and do:

Code:

fdisk -lu

I need to see the output back here. Note that this would be easier to do from a LiveCD.

Desolo · 16-Feb-2009, 19:51

i guess i can attempt to burn a live disk.

**mingus725** · 16-Feb-2009, 20:23

Originally Posted by Desolo

i guess i can attempt to burn a live disk.

It's entirely up to you. The advantage of the LiveCD is that, assuming it successfully connects to the internet, it is a lot easier to post the output of a command in a terminal to the browser using copy/paste. While the DVD will be working from the command line, and without a network connection, so output has to be transcribed and typed back here.

**dzuchowski** · 19-Aug-2009, 10:11

the error 1012 is real simple to fix....
today computer companies install a hidden partition for a system restore. I had one on my Asus g71-gx-rx05 from best buy. Once i went into a system commander boot cd and deleted all hard drive partitions including hidden as well and made just one big partition and named it windows 7 (win 7 on a blank drive will also create a hidden partition for boot files) I did this under here to avoid windows 7 from creating a hidden boot partition. I also deleted the hidden system restore partition from asus as that also causes the error 1012... Then I installed Windows 7 Rc 7100 to the drive that i just created the single partition on. Then I install OpenSuse Linux 11.1 all is fine.....