> I'll second this. In fact, every Compaq that I've ever seen does > this. It's usually the last partition on the disk, is roughly 32MB > in size and generally of a type not recognized by Linux fdisk or fips.
It was actually the first partition and it was 5 GIGS in size. > If you do manage to remove this partition, you can get it back by > running the recovery CD that came with your Compaq. Then, you'll > want to repartition the drive and not touch the one that meets the > above criteria. You usually can't miss it, 'cause it shows up as > Partition 4 on a system with only 2 partitions. You say that like new computers come with rescue CDs.. This Compaq did not. There is a utility to create them to CD-R(W) media, but you're only allowed to do it once. I did manage to finally get FreeBSD working. What I ended up having to do was repartiton the drive, let it recover to partiton 2 (the next one after the rescue partiton). It left the other two new partitions along. Linux CDs still would not boot correctly, still no idea why. The only ones I could get were a live rescue CD (not Knoppix). Anything else would just cause the system to reboot. _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
