Hi Knurpht,
Thanks very much for your response.
I can give you more details about my system. It is an AOpen LE300 barebone with the following characteristics:
- AOpen nmcp68pvnt-hd motherboard
- AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+
- 1 GB RAM DDR2 800 Mhz
- 2 Seagate 7200 1.5 Tb SATA drives
- No CDROM drive
In BIOS setup I cannot see the drives, maybe because I dont know where to look for the information.
I have tried what you have asked me (booting with GParted LiveUsb) and here are the results:
- fdisk -l (Semms that only returns info from two pendrives that I had attached - sda with 1Gb and sdb with 2 Gb)
Disk /dev/sda: 982 MB, 982449664 bytes
32 heads, 63 sectors/track, 951 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2016 * 512 = 1032192 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x005c0f10
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 951 958576+ 6 FAT16
Disk /dev/sdb: 2021 MB, 2021654528 bytes
63 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1010 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 3906 * 512 = 1999872 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xb0bcd68e
This doesn’t look like a partition table
Probably you selected the wrong device.
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 ? 825235 888389 123339962 78 Unknown
Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(518, 102, 15) logical=(825234, 44, 50)
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(743, 0, 62) logical=(888388, 51, 15)
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdb2 ? 110823 309410 387841909+ 10 OPUS
Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(205, 7, 0) logical=(110822, 6, 14)
Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(920, 235, 50) logical=(309409, 54, 34)
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdb3 ? 478639 969993 959615034 8b Unknown
Partition 3 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(260, 125, 54) logical=(478638, 40, 56)
Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(893, 46, 60) logical=(969992, 62, 35)
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdb4 ? 54664 56795 4161561+ a OS/2 Boot Manager
Partition 4 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(269, 111, 50) logical=(54663, 42, 7)
Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(0, 0, 0) logical=(56794, 33, 1)
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.
Partition table entries are not in disk order
- ls -l /dev/sd* (Only info from the two pendrives)
brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 8, 0 2009-09-21 22:03 /dev/sda
brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 8, 1 2009-09-21 22:03 /dev/sda1
brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 8, 16 2009-09-21 22:06 /dev/sdb
Yes, the two SATA disks are brand new, but I dont know exactly where is the Yast - System - Partitioning section during the installation process to format them. Nevertheless, I remember that following the wizard I ended up in a partitioning manager where I wasnt able to work with none of the two drives.
If you find that it could be helpful I can send you dumps from the following commands: dmesg, lspci and lsmod. I am not sending them here to prevent being the post too long.
Many thanks for your help. I am a completely newbie in this kind of advanced tasks and any help is much appreciated.
Best regards,
Jose Antonio