[SOLVED] Partititioning failed on Asus 1201n then no startup

[ui670]

I am trying to install on Asus 1201n netbook.
when I try to install on the free space, I get the message:
partititioning failed: raw_add: partitition table already full.
see also attached picture.

[Old-Polack]

I am trying to install on Asus 1201n netbook.
when I try to install on the free space, I get the message:
partititioning failed: raw_add: partitition table already full.
see also attached picture.

If you are trying to install, and there are already 4 primary partitions, if one isn't an extended partition, there is no place in the partition table for additional partitions. If the entire disk is used by current partitions, at least one will have to be shrunk to make room for a new partition. If all the partitions are primary, even shrinking one won't work, without make one partition an extended partiton.

[ui670]

thanks
as you can see my HD is divided to MAIN and APPS which are both primary.
I shrinked APPS and have now free space. How do I make the free space to be extended?

[Old-Polack]

thanks
as you can see my HD is divided to MAIN and APPS which are both primary.
I shrinked APPS and have now free space. How do I make the free space to be extended?

The terms MAIN and APPS have no meaning except to yourself. They certainly convey no sense of how the system sees the hard drive, what is mounted where, and what is installed where. I would suggest you post the results of;

[root@localhost ~]# fdisk -l                <Enter>

so we can get some useful partition information.

[ui670]

  Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x9499ce26

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1       13055   104857600    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2           13055       26243   105938273+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3           37606       38654     8421567   1b  Hidden W95 FAT32
/dev/sda4           38911       38913       16224+  ef  EFI (FAT-12/16/32)

Disk /dev/sdb: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x974ff6cb

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1               1       30401   244196001    7  HPFS/N

[Old-Polack]

 Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x9499ce26

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1       13055   104857600    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2           13055       26243   105938273+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3           37606       38654     8421567   1b  Hidden W95 FAT32
/dev/sda4           38911       38913       16224+  ef  EFI (FAT-12/16/32)

Disk /dev/sdb: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x974ff6cb

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1               1       30401   244196001    7  HPFS/N

This shows a partition table with four primary partitions on /dev/sda, so no place for other partitions without repartitioning. On the other hand you have [SOLVED] in the title of your first thread, so again, no idea as to where you are.

[ui670]

I managed to install pclinuxos but now when booting, win7 is trying to start, failing,
and suggest to launch startup repair.
I do not get the linux window startup.
When I check with the livecd it says no bootloader found.

also I see that I "managed" to delete :/dev/sda3           37606       38654     8421567   1b  Hidden W95 FAT32
which is no longer exist. (linux instead?)

please advise.

[root@localhost root]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x9499ce26

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1           1         992+  42  SFS
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2   *           1       13055   104857600   42  SFS
/dev/sda3           13055       38914   207711576   83  Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x974ff6cb

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1               1       30401   244196001    7  HPFS/NTFS

 

[Old-Polack]

I managed to install pclinuxos but now when booting, win7 is trying to start, failing,
and suggest to launch startup repair.
I do not get the linux window startup.
When I check with the livecd it says no bootloader found.

also I see that I "managed" to delete :/dev/sda3           37606       38654     8421567   1b  Hidden W95 FAT32
which is no longer exist. (linux instead?)

please advise.

[root@localhost root]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x9499ce26

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1           1         992+  42  SFS
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2   *           1       13055   104857600   42  SFS
/dev/sda3           13055       38914   207711576   83  Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x974ff6cb

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1               1       30401   244196001    7  HPFS/NTFS

 

Now your /dev/sda is even more messed up than before. You have a partition that starts and ends on the same cylinder, /dev/sda1, and another that overlaps it, and is what used to be /dev/sda1 but is now /dev/sda2. Both are identified as SFS partitions, when there should be only one partition there, identified as NTFS. Finally your Linux partition /dev/sda3 starts on the ending cylinder of /dev/sda2, which also makes it an overlapping partition, and claims to end on a cylinder that doesn't exist. The drive claims to have a total of 38913 cylinders, yet your partition says it ends on cylinder 38914. There is no Linux swap partition either.

All things considered, were it my drive, I'd start over from scratch, partition the drive properly, then reinstall both operating systems.

[ui670]

I restored to the original state, then I deleted the last small empty partition on the disk.
Now I could run the install, and all is well.
thanks a lot.