On Wed, March 23, 2005 9:34 pm, Wesley Parish said: > I've got a problem. I thought at first it was a hardware problem - my > Linux > box's CPU getting overheated - but I'm not so sure now. > > To be truthful, I've popped the lid off the side to check that the CPU's > fan > is actually going, which it is; that may have something to do with it. > > But lately I'm wondering if the cause mightn't be partition/filesystem > confusion and corruption. Cause - /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda5 both point to > the > same entity.
what do you mean "the same entity"? how about fdisk -l /dev/hda please > Should I delete /dev/hda1's entry in the partition table and > change /dev/hda5's to bootable? > > Or should I just reinstall everything? > > Thanks > > Wesley Parish > > "Sharpened hands are happy hands. > "Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands" > - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge > > "I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot!" > I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the > other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press >
