> > http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/Armada/us/download/8412.html
BIOS was already latest. I nulled the start of the disk to make sure, then had compaq's diagnostics install themselves and a new partition table. I'm not totally sure there isn't some kind of disk geometry problem. Still no DMA, which works fine on a 5GB disk. The real killer was that the 16GB partition shows no problems with reiserfsck, but on mounting (r/w or r/o) hangs the system with 100% CPU load, ever to finish. This also when booting a stand-alone rescue system from CD. Beats me, and I had to stop working on it. Things to try: create partition table with Linux after booting with nulled disk(!), different filesystem. If it's a boot loader problem - I can't install a loader on the laptop if I can't even mount the partition there. The Linux system was installed by copying from the 5GB disk on a fast desktop computer (otherwise it'd be Christmas) and installing grub in a chroot with a modified devices.map. :(( Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
