After installing 7.2 I decided to retrieve my data from my bzip file....only problem was that I always got an error regarding data corruption from bzip. Thinking this was rather odd I tried even changing the kernel back to what I used with 7.1 thinking something odd must be with 7.2....This didn't fix a thing! Getting desparate I reinstalled 7.1 and attempted to unbzip my file.....you guessed it worked FIRST time...and the second and the third! Reinstall Mandrake 7.2 and guess what....fails everytime!! next I start thinking well I installed with optimisation on maybe thats screwing things.....re-install without optimisation and guess what? Its still broken.....try a few other things then decide to re-install with reformatting with -c for bad blocks....at the end I still can't unbzip anything large...which roughly equates to anything over about 30 meg. Interesting part is tar and gzip work fine.....trying another data compressor that uses large amounts of cpu time (rar) yeilds the same results as bzip. Now thinking back to 7.1 hd optimisation was achieved by adding opti in lilo.....lilo in 7.2 has the added line "idex=autotune" but there is nowhere in any of the startup scripts that use this.....maybe its used somewhere else but I haven't had the time to investigate....any way cutting it short I rewrote /etc/rc.d/init.d/mandrake_everytime to include using hdparm as per what was in 7.1 and guess what.... YES BZIP RAR etc all now work.....I have no idea what is up with mandrake but thought I'd post this in case someone else is having problems and since I just wasted an entire 12 hrs installing re installing etc I thought I'd save someone else some time!
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