The point is, did you ever use a Dos / Windows utility to partition the disk, or did you buy it new and partition it with the installer?
No, no windows or other non-linux partitioning tool should have been used on this disk. Linux is the only thing thats been on this drive.
Yes, his solution re-creates the partitions, and yes, you would then have to reinstall (or maybe not, since the partition table would be identical), but during the reinstall, you wouldn't have to make the partitions, you could just install. The feeling I got from the web page was that this would allow things to proceed normally.
As for why one kernel boots and the other doesn't, I don't know. I suspect it's related to your bootloader and the fact that the installed kernel comes from the same source as the partition table, but that's a total guess.
Justin
Do you think it would be worth it to try re-installing and using grub instead of lilo? or loading it into the MBR instead of the partition?
thanks again.
Ian
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