hello... i have some problems with my laptop... i have ubuntu distro... my laptop is : hp pavilion dv1000

this laptop can works as dvd player, even if you do not load the SO... so, i need to know what to do, to create a partition... to load dvd... cause.. this says: MESA PARTITION NOT FOUND... WILL REBOOT IN 5 SECONDS... so what is that partition? how do i create it?... thanks...

This the beastie?
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1640282,00.asp

This says:This laptop has a "quickplay" function which allows it to act as a standalone dvd player without loading an OS (Windows or linux). You'll be interested in:

http://dbg400.net/cgi-bin/twiki/view...inuxOnDV1066ea

basically, the quickplay system is linux - optimised to just play dvds - that occupies a special 200Mb partition. Thus it takes about 10 seconds to load. That's right - you were sold a dual-boot computer

So, the quickplay partition is absent? Run fdisk -l and past the output (and the command) to your reply.

I suspect you have managed to delete the quickplay partition. Possibly hp have supplied a disk for this? Or you may need to go back to the people who sold you the laptop for support - they can restore it to the system defaults and you can start over from there. (Or you can live without quickplay).

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hello... thanks for the info... im working in that! however... ok, i will not mix caps anymore... i did not knew it! lol..

I just got my hp dv5k laptop, it does come w/ a restore disk for quickplay. Which is a very nice function, it does save on battery life. The partition size should be 212 mb total, 204 mb are used for the actual quickplay software, the other 8 mb is unallocated and used for other functions. Not sure of the file system, i think it's swap, but i'm not sure, shows up as 0x088, the unalloctated i believe to be swap anyways.

I am trying to duel boot, slackware, w/ windows, when i seen that quickplay had it's own partition, i haven't tried to resize the NTFS, or install slack, am trying to find a way to install it w/o disrubting the quickplay, but i probabely will destroy it on the first attempt, due to the fact when i resize the ntfs partition all of the space goes into the unallocated, and i think the quickplay partition needs to be at the end of the NTFS partition..... any advice on proceding?

QuickPlay is for XP? If so it's partition should be labelled by XP and it can be left alone. Resizing the main XP partion to leave 10G let's say as unformatted for SW install. You can make that partition an extended partion to include /root and /swap logical partitions for linux. You may want to also create fat32 partition for sharing files between linux and XP. An XP restore partition may cause partition size error messages.
Restoring XP from cd/DVD rescue disk would wipe out linux. So some make rescue cds,get rid of restore partition and reinstall XP before making partition changes and SW install.
XP-PRO allows partition resizing.Or Ubuntu. If not PM8 can,any number of rescue live-cds or Mepis,kanotix and other live-cds include qtparted for ntfs or Fat32 resizing. Then linux install should progress normally.

Quickplay is linux optimised for playing dvds.
Just leave the quickplay partition alone ... for good advise, boot from a linux rescue or live distro, and tell us the output of fdisk -l

Usually there will be a windows recovery partition, maybe a small partition from the manufacturer (sometimes even contains acpi tables), a quickplay partition (in your case), and something weird for XP (my acer aspire 3003LC had 2 LVM partitions for windows) ... generally the largest ntfs or vfat partitions will be windows ones.

Probably your best bet is to reinstall windows (if I guess right, you have the shop/demo configuration anyway and they've given you install disks specific to your machine). Then look at the config again.

Of course - you could take it to the support folk. Tell them you want windows to occupy a much smaller part of the HDD and you want the rest blank. Maybe they'll do this for you.

Install was clean , a few drivers need to be updated, quickplay survived as well

Good going chylde! Have you made an HCL entry for this?

Kudos! If you have the time chlyde would you consider making a tuxmobile or linux-on-laptop entry with SW install notes on your lappy model? Happy slacking.