Has anyone had a problem where Linux crashes because, it can not read the Hard Drive.
I have a Maxtor 4.3, Split up in to 2gig, 1.3 Meg, and the 1.3 meg Swap, and the rest for Linux.
I can install the 5.3 Office version, however whenever I try to boot, the system crashes saying that it can not read /dev/hda. At this time, I think that I have to do a low level reform for the entire drive, which means=get another HD). I think that it is because I have used the Fat32 FS or because, I have enabled Large Disk Support on the HD for windows. Either way, I have worked all weekend end and I have not been able to resolve this issue. I have tried Caldera, Slackware 96 and all of the distributions seems to be behaving the same way. Slackware actually booted up one time, but on the next boot the same problem.
I am at a loss. I am thinking that I need to get a something like Partition-Magic or something like that in order to fix the Hard Drive. But, I thought that I should ask for opinons first
Les
