On Tuesday 20 March 2001 02:00, you wrote:
> On 19 Mar 2001 17:33:28 -0700, Rich Chase wrote:
> > While installing Linux-Mandrake (seems to be multigenerational bug --
> > also in 7.2 versions), the program halts during package installation at
> > seemingly arbitrary points with complaint "no hdlists found". --
> > Parenthetically, upon subsequent installation of RehHat, to salvage data
> > on the disk, I get errors indicating a corrupted partition table.
> >
> > Anybody else seeing this error? It has occurred for me with various
> > system architectures and Mandrake versions.
> >
> > Rich Chase
>
> I had some (actually a lot) of trouble with a corrupted partition table
> some time back. Believed to be atrributed to Diskdrake. Had some more
> recent trouble of the same sort though lesser. First incident was 7.2
> and corrupted the whole darn thing beyond recovery. The second only
> hurt one of the ext2 partitions.
Both of you please get this script
http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~civileme/snapshot.sh
and run it on any stable linux and send *snap to me as an attachment.
Civileme
It is NOT DiskDrake It is a disk geometry recognition problem in the kernel.
Mostly with WD drives and certain VIA Chipsets.
