Re: New Arrival

[Garst R. Reese]

hawk wrote:
> 
> garst gobbled,
> 
> > The solution to the partition problem is not to boot from the partition
> > with the MBR. Boot from a linux partition.
> 
> BUt it's the partition table itself that gets creamed with apparently
> random data.  So the kernel might be found, and boot starts, but
> eventually (going multiuser?) it looks up the values in /etc/fstab,
> tries to find those partitions in the table, is fed garbage, and panics
> when unable to mount . . .
All I know is that I did not see the problem again after I changed my
boot partition. That could have been chance since I almost never boot
windows.