parbreastions not recognized. 561

On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 00:37:09 GMT, Stanislaw Flatto staggered into the Black Sun and said:

That'd probably bedev-hda, but ICBW. Time to check that out inside the machine's BIOS Setup. If it's set to boot fromdev-hdb , weird things that you don't expect could be happening. If hdb is the boot disk from the BIOS's point of view, that *shouldn't* lead to the symptoms Attys reported (good parbreastion table on hda, but a recent SuSE wouldn't install, claiming the parbreastion table was empty.)

Er... what's your bootloader config look like? It's possible to do weird things with the table= command in LILO-GRUB.

Those disks were almost certainly not Real SCSI, but USB by their capacities (128 and 14M). In most places, there's no reason to keep a lot slower than their modern counterparts, even if they *are* Real SCSI. It's possible that Attys could be booting from one of these USB disks, but that'd require explicitly setting "boot from USB" to Y in the BIOS. And that still shouldn't lead to the symptoms Attys reported.

Gah. I'm confused by the reports here. Makes me wish I could look at the machine in person....

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