[ltp] Partition mistake?

[chris christensen]

I just repartitioned the drive in my TP600 to allow more space for windows
( okay gimme grief), It is a 12 gig drive and I had set under 2 gigs for
windows, and had some unused partions that I was saving for another distro
of Linux. After I installed Mandrake the boot up went fine thru Grub, but
when Linux started to load it hangs after a message
" Partition check:
 hda: general protection fault: 0000
CPU:  0
EIP;   0010; [<C0128362>]
EFLAGS : 00010286
with many numeric messages to follow and a final line
Code: 8b 21 39 68 04 75 f3  and so on.

I was careful to make the mount point below the 1024 point ( I think).

Is this recoverable withour losing the windows partition
Windows boots and runs fine when chosen in Grub

Chris Christensen
----- Original Message -----
From: "D. Sen" <dsen@research.att.com>
To: <linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com>
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 3:34 AM
Subject: Re: [ltp] Warning -- Windows can hose your machine!


> "Only windows is supported on a machine that came preloaded with windows"
>
> This is concerning and annoying. Recently, my hard drive started emitting
loud
> clicking noises along with a number of "hda.." notices on the syslog. It
was
> obviously on its way out. When I called IBM support they basically said
that
> unless I could prove using DOS/Windows diagnostic tools that the drive was
> faulty they wouldnt do anything about it (since the machine came preloaded
with
> windows). The diagnostic tool that came preloaded with windows failed to
find a
> problem. Another tool that they recommended crashed prematurely (without
> producing any diagnostic data). After about the fourth call to support,
> I finally managed to convince them that the second program should not be
> crashing if the hard-drive was fine (I happened to have an older thinkpad
with
> two hard disks where the program .
>
> Its a cause for concern when hardware is obviously faulty from all
> indications......especially SysLog error messages, but IBM support ignores
them
> all unless errors show up under windows.
>
> I cant tell you how frustrating it was when told that either the problem
would
> have to show up under windows or the drive fail completely before they
paid any
> heed to my complaints. Even more bewildering since they sell another
member of
> the family of thinkpads (T21) preloaded with Caldera Linux.
>
> DS
>
> Tom Grydeland wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Ben Snyder wrote:
> >
> > > Sorry, I meant the drive (was bad).  Any disc, especially data discs,
will
> > > spin only a couple revs before stopping, then Linux spews error
messages.
> >
> > This doesn't happen for *all* CDs though.
> >
> > Any ideas how I can isolate this error -- determine whether the drive is
> > to blame or not?  As I said, the drive claims to be OK in the self-test.
> >
> > >  - devlyn76
> >
> > --
> > //Tom Grydeland <Tom.Grydeland@phys.uit.no>
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