[lug] windows reformatting linux disks?

[Timothy C. Klein]

Weird, I have a disk that causes a kernel panic if I boot from it, I
*think* it was about the paging request, but I am not sure.  It fails
before any init stuff is run, so the computer has no network connection,
I haven't felt like writing the oops down to report it.

The odd thing, is this disk use to have Windows on it.  It belonged to
my sister.  It was WinMe.  I put Linux on it after I repartitioned it.
My swap space still has seems to have random FAT data, as I couldn't
remember which partition numbers were which, and I was able to mount the
swap space as VFAT, and see some old, odd DOS/Windows stuff.

Now I am starting to think conspiracy theories... MS is mucking in the
partition table in some way, fooling the Linux kernel!  Oh no!

Or, could just be an odd coincidence.

??  I haven't figured it out yet, but I am able to boot from an floppy
fine, with the identical kernel.  I'll figure out one of these days when I
am bored.

So any access to this USB disk causes a kernel panic?

Tim

* Neal McBurnett (neal at bcn.boulder.co.us) wrote:
> I recently got a new Maxtor USB drive.  I plugged it into a redhat 7.1
> system and formatted it into 4 partitions - 3 linux and one "0xda
> Non-FS data"
> partition.  I put some good stuff on it.
> 
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