Let me know if you need anything else.
Provided you use normal UP kernels, could you try the following kernels: <http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gbeauchesne/kernel/>
And with .test1 please check for any partition table check failure message. This shouldn't fix anything but trying to isolate the problem. Sorry, I can't test anything myself until Monday.
Thanks, Gwenole.
