begin quotation from Daniel Baumann (in <4ea88885.1010...@progress-technologies.net>): > On 10/26/2011 11:42 AM, Arne Wichmann wrote: > > anhrefn# /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/hda [...] /dev/hda3 * 3984120 > > 586067264 291041572+ 83 Linux > > something is fishy here; you're claiming you're using wheezy/sid, yet > your harddisk is /dev/hd* and not /dev/sd*.
Yep, this is an old system on old hardware. > given that you appear to use an ide disk and thus using an old machine.. > are you sure your bios can boot stuff beyond 1024 cylinders? to rule it > out, repartition and make your /boot the first partition on that disk. Ok, I moved /boot to another partition on the beginning of the disk and retried - no change. cu AW -- [...] If you don't want to be restricted, don't agree to it. If you are coerced, comply as much as you must to protect yourself, just don't support it. Noone can free you but yourself. (crag, on Debian Planet) Arne Wichmann (a...@linux.de)
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