I don't think that any of us has a clue what might be causing it.
Might be helpful to know the type of HD; some HDs are on bad terms with
586 code because they were out of spec before and now the code is fast
enough to notice.
On Mon, 03 Apr 2000, you wrote:
| Did I post to the wrong list? Did I miss an obvious FAQ? My problem
| seems to be Mandrake 7-specific, and v7 FAQ isn't incomplete.
|
| Maybe my question's just too puerile, but if someone could at least
| point me in the right direction?
|
| thanks,
| -Tim
|
| Tim Hammerquist wrote:
| >
| > First, I apologize if this mail reaches the wrong box. The welcome message for
| > the list ended abruptly without giving info on submitting... =)
| >
| > Here's my scenario:
| >
| > Running Win98SE on bottom 10GB of 20GB hard drive.
| > Installed Mandrake 6.1 on upper 10GB last December. Worked beautifully. =)
| > Bought Mandrake 7 Complete and formatted and installed over 6.1 (didn't
| > upgrade).
| > Mandrake 7 will not mount the DOS/FAT32 partition (at boot or otherwise). It
| > gives the error "/dev/hda1 has invalid major or minor...". Everything listed in
| > /dev under hda lists major number as 3 and minor number corresponding to
| > partition. Kernel is located on /dev/hda3, FAT32 (LBA) on /dev/hda1. I normally
| > boot from my config.sys using loadlin.exe, but /dev/hda1 can't be mounted even
| > if I use the boot disk.
| >
| > Now when I went back to install 6.1 which worked fine before, it crashes during
| > formatting /dev/hda3 as ext2.
| >
| > Has anyone had this problem? Is there a fix/patch/easy explanation, or do I have
| > to backup my hd and reformat all partitions from scratch?
| >
| > BTW: Win98 on /dev/hda1 still works; no problems.
| >
| > TIA,
| > -Tim
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