Pixel wrote:
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> Pierre Fortin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> > the current partition table which should be similar if not identical to how it
> > looked when 7.0 killed hda1's mbr.
>
> [...]
>
> > /dev/hda1 1 13 104391 82 Linux swap
> > /dev/hda2 * 14 166 1228972+ 6 FAT16
>
> wow, you're telling me windows uses the hda1 MBR to boot!??!!
> or is that a typo?
Neither... I said earlier the problem was on 7.0 and 7.1 was "similar".
Remember, 7.1 so badly hosed that laptop that it's gone unused for 98 days; I
likely deleted the FAT partition in my attempts to restore it 3 months ago.
I finally got 7.2b3 downloaded and just tried to install on the laptop via
ftp... I have a Nat.Semi. NE4100 InfoMover PCMCIA card which works under 7.1
with ne.o; but b3 can't find the hardware which is at 0x300,3
DAMN! Just tried to reboot into 7.1 and got a lot of "[<c0119500>]" type output
followed by:
Code: 8b 4a 04 85 c9 74 22 8b 5a 18 8b 02 89 01 8b 0a 85 c9 74 08
Aiee, killing interrupt handler
Kernel panic: Attempted to tkill the idle task!
In interrupt handler - not synching
Rebooting, fsck forced on all partitions, BOOM! Well, looks like 7.2b3 has
taken another step in the wrong direction... Just starting the install, only to
the point of trying to find the ether adapter clobbers the existing system...
Looks like network.img is not ready for prime time.
Pierre
