Do you have a Via chipset mainboard? as I understand it, if you do, and its a 686 southbridge, then your problem is known.
that possibility depends on the two partitions residing on different drives though.. its made worse if you have a Creative live sound card, and/or western Digital HDDs make sure you have the latest bios on your mainboard. I swapped to EXT3 for now from reiser because of occasional fs corruption... its not as fast, but its more forgiving then reiserfs. just some thoughts.. rgds Frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Charles Darcy Sent: Thursday, 6 December 2001 1:13 PM To: Mandrake Expert List Subject: [expert] What might cause partition table corruption. Hi, My partition table was recently corrupted, and thanks to the help of this list, I managed to repair the table and re-install LM8.1. My main concern now is trying to figure out what I did that might have caused the corruption. The only unsual activities just prior to corruption were: - Copying 3 650MB ISO files from linux reiserfs partition to FAT32 windows partition. - I may have left a floppy drive mounted and failed to log out as root, before shutting down (but surely this wouldn't affect the partition table). - Booted windows. Just looked around with Explorer. I accidentally opened a BIOS flash utility, but exited immediately, without activating any controls. I dont' think the utility actually did anything other than show its GUI, but I can't be certain. Can flashing BIOS (if thats what happened) affect the partition table ? Upon leaving windows, Linux would not re-boot, because it couldn't find the filesystems to mount due to the partition table corruption. I use reiserfs for my linux partitions, if that is a factor. I'd love to hear any ideas about possible corruption causes. regards, Charles.
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