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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