Parted hates my partition table, can't update to Fedora Core

[William Studenmund]

In the process of updating a RedHat 7.3 system to Fedora Core, I 
discovered that parted doesn't like my partition table, and so I can't 
update. The machine triple boots Linux, NetBSD, and Windows, so wiping 
the partition table isn't an option.

Also unfortunately, parted's error message is not illuminating. It 
complains, "Error: Unable to satisfy all constraints on the partition." 
It neither tells me what constraints are at issue, nor how it can't 
satisfy them. Even when I ask it to just print a partition, it gives 
that error complaint. "help" is the only parted command I've found that 
doesn't report an error, though I didn't try all the command options. 
;-)

The partition table was worked on by both the NetBSD and Windows 
partitioning tools, then I used Disk Druid under RedHat 7.3 to finish 
partitioning. Linux's main file system is in the primary partition 
table, and its swap and var (and since this is a Dell, the Dell startup 
partition) are in extended partitions. For some reason, Disk Druid made 
one extended partition, then sub-partitions which were also extended, 
then put these last three partitions in there.

I do know that the NetBSD partition doesn't end on a cylinder boundary, 
but I really don't care.

I'd appreciate any help in getting this working.

As per the documentation, I'm appending the output of fdisk /dev/hda 
-l, interactively using fdisk to get the partition and expert partition 
tables, and a hand-copy of parted's output.

Thanks!

Take care,

Bill

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