[mamorim01]

Thanks for the suggestion, it is indeed quite odd. Unfortunately, resetting parameters did not seem to help, either. I have removed both the hard disk and the CD-ROM for cleaning as I am working on refurbishing the machine, and will try again tomorrow using a new approach. I have just received a new 36GB drive which I intended to use for other purposes, and I will try to restart the process from scratch using this drive. My gut feeling is that something went wrong with the repartition process when using fx and the partition table is either scrambled or not properly set. For what it is worth, I just plugged the old drive in an Octane and initialized it from within IRIX and it seems to work wonders, so it is not as if it was phisically damaged.