Re: bad experience with Suse 9.1 on Inspiron 8200

From: David Wright (david_c_wright_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/11/04 

Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 20:04:18 +0200

perfb wrote:

<snip>
> Anyway, I reinstalled 9.1 after recovering with the XP FIXMBR
> command, without the floppy installed, and it worked OK.
> I am thinking I glitched the hardisk somehow by doing a hard reset
> when the install had locked up with the hd led on.
>

Yep, that'll probably do it ;-)

If it seems to have locked up and is still accessing the disk, next time, go
drink a coffee or watch a film and come back, if it is still thrashing,
then there is nothing you can probably do... ;-)

Dave

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