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Wim Vandeputte writes:
 > 
 > I'm trying the new (06/07) disks you made, right after I partition a 
 > harddisk and I did a quit (after write), something flashes over the 
 > screen and it beeps. I noticed this but never figured out what it could be.

Hello,

You can do the following on a fully running system do something like
to diagnotise the problem, this may be useful for other things:

zcat the_right_directory/root1440.bin > /var/tmp/root.dd
mount -oloop=/dev/loop6 /var/tmp/root.dd /mnt
mount -t proc none /mnt/proc
chroot /mnt /sbin/dinstall

In another window you can launch strace -f on the dinstall process to
see what happen exactly

then try the step that provoke the flashing (be careful not to erase
or modify any used ext2 or swap partition, nor the partition table
:-), or to configure network if you are trying this remotely).

If you have a spare partition you can test the whole install (you can
access your real root by using the prefix /proc/1/root/...)

To clean up you need:
for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5; do losetup -d /dev/loop$i;done
umount /mnt/target
umount /mnt/proc
umount /mnt
rm /var/tmp/root.dd


Loic


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