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[Elton Machado <suse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Can you see the disk in BIOS setup ? 
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On Monday, 1 de October de 2001 19:20, Oliver Ob wrote:
# THOMAS ADAM schrieb:
# >
# > > Do you actually have the hard drive attached as master
# > drive in your first
# > > IDE channel (hda)?
# > >
# > > Is the device file /dev/hda correct?
# > >
# > > brw-rw----    1 root     disk      3,   0 May 21
# > 08:21 /dev/hda
# > >
# > > Did you try "gpart" yet?
# >
# > I wouldn't recommend using that personally...in my
# > experience it causes more problems than it solves (thank
# > you N-curses :-)
# >
# > > Have you tried the rescue system from the first suse CD?
# > It should be
# > > enough to boot your computer and examine the hard drive.
# > Post the contents
# > > of /proc/partitions, post the output of "dmesg".
# >
# > dmesg &> $HOME/dmesg_output.txt && exec unix2dos
# > $HOME/dmesg_output.txt
# >
# > should do the trick, but I fail to see how this helps,
# > since dmesg mearly reports output from the "kernel ring"
# > buffer, and will not give specifics on HDD failures.
# >
# > My advice would be to check "/var/log/messages"
# >
# > --Thomas Adam
# >
# well all those advises are nothing since i told and wrote:
#
# i cannot access the whole partition.
# not read, not write not boot
# so i cannot test that.
#
# only thing i have been able to give you in the very first
# mail which I resend now is detailed error descriptions