I used the 30gig IBM drive and had the same issues that are are having...

I think I ended up not using that hard drive image ... it never ever worked for me, I got the same errors you did.

If I remember right, I brought it up under the freshly installed kernel as is .... I might have attempted an fdisk on it, but I don't think I had to...

give it a try and see if you can boot as is at the moment...

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