The installer simply can not read the partition table of my second Western Digital Raptor HD. Even after I used fdisk to remove all information the installer wasn't able to read the table. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start GTK+ installer from the 2008 amd64 beta 1 Live CD. 2. Wait for the error message. 3. Oh nothing special, just let teh CD boot all by itself with no intervention. Actual Results: An error message appeared saying... "There was an error loading the partition table from device /dev/sdb. It will not be displayed." Expected Results: I would like to be able to see my second hard drive from the installer. The hard drive is a Western Digital Raptor 10k RPM disk. (same exact model as sda) Motherboard is an Asus A8n32-SLI Delux board.
Just because you clear the partitions doesn't mean there isn't still a messed up partition table on there. The installer is doing what it's supposed to do. Try the following: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=1 That will zero the first sector of /dev/sdb (where the partition table is), and allow the installer to use it.
