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btrigger@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Ben Shaun Trigger) wrote more than:

>i've just installed slackware v3.2 and i'm getting some worrying error
>messages.

>hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL_TM2110A, 2014MB w/76kB cache, LBA, CHS=1023/64/63

>The problems start when i try to write the partition table, with fdisk.
>Fdisk gives the message:

>Re-read table failed with error 16: Device or resource busy.

>The next problem comes when i run setup. It gives the message:

>Warning: invalid flag 0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by
>w(rite)
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I had very similar problems, also after installing Slackware 3.2 on a
large LBA drive (if that matters) very recently.

I found they went away after I booted the floppy installition disk. I
just wrote the partition table again using fdisk. This seemed to get
rid of the annoying "invalid flag" message.

Now all I need to do is make sure that "forced" e2fsck goes through!

- Thomas
 - Thomas Van de Hoef        Manure Motivator.
   Koo Wee Rup, Australia.      
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