[buug] ldm_validate_partition_error

[Skip Evans]

Hey all,

I just installed Mandrake Linux 9.1 on a workstation to 
see if I can use it to dump Windows. All I need is 
openoffice, email, and the AOL IM (because that's what 
they use here in the office), and I pretty much have 
all I need to get started sans Windows, except that I 
would like to keep my Windows drive bootable as a 
second drive because there is stuff on it I will have 
to get back to now and again.

All seems well with the ML install, except that when it 
is booting up and says 'finding module dependencies' I 
get the following error:

ldm_validate_partition_table(): disk read failed.

I searched around a bit for this and could only find 
references in discussion groups to people getting it on 
older Mandrake installs, but that it should have been 
fixed in 9.1.

Anyone know what this error is?

I'm also having trouble getting the Windows drive to 
boot as HDD-1. Basically, I thought I could plug one in 
as the master (ML), and one as the slave and select in 
the bios which to boot from. I'm quite sure I got the 
jumpers all set right.

I also tried putting them both as masters on each cable 
of the IDE controller, and booting from the bios as 
HDD-0 and HDD-2, but any time I try and boot either one 
as the second drive I get a non-system disk error.

My computer is a very generic standard type machine, no 
fancy hardware installed.

Amy ideas?

Thanks from a newbie.

(In case you're wondering, as someone else quizzed me 
about, the 'Network' in my job title has nothing to do 
with computer networks, more the fleshy kind full of 
blood and yuck.)


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Skip Evans
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