I haven't received my Thinkpad in the mail yet but I know that IBM has a 
hidden partition (at least on recent Thinkpads) that could be affecting 
something.  Use something like partition magic to check out what you have as 
far as partitions.  The hidden partition contains the Windows setup files if 
you need to reinstall. 


On Monday 14 June 2004 09:24 am, Kevin wrote:
> > When I shutdown, it says "tmpfs unmounted
> > " and then "/dev/hda2 umounted'
>
> Do you know how your disk is partitioned?  If you don't know, can you
> (very carefully) print the partition table inside fdisk, something like
> this:
>
> # fdisk /dev/hda
> Command (m for help): print
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes
> 240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 5168 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1   *           1        1110     8391568+   c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
> /dev/hda2            1111        1243     1005480   82  Linux swap
> /dev/hda3            1244        1252       68040   83  Linux
> /dev/hda4            1253        5168    29604960    5  Extended
> /dev/hda5            1253        5168    29604928+  83  Linux
>                                                                            
>                         Command (m for help): quit #
>                                                                            
>                         With that info in mind, check the following
> commands and see if they look right.
>
> # mount
> # df -h
>
> > LS in ETC shows both FSTAB and MTAB
>
> What's in those files?  Do they look correct for your partitioning
> scheme?
> # cat /etc/mtab
> # cat /etc/fstab
>
>
>
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