On Sunday 11 Aug 2002 11:14, Pixel wrote: > Peter Ruskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Saturday 10 Aug 2002 21:28, Pixel wrote: > > > "Devin B. Hedge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > I think you hit the nail on the head. By default, it appears that > > > > the Mandrake Installer tries to install the Boot Loader in the > > > > XFS boot partition instead of on the MBR. Of course this > > > > installation fails and will not continue beyond that point. Once > > > > I switched the location where the Installer was trying to put > > > > LILO to the MBR it worked fine. > > > > > > > > Am I making sense? > > > > > > it should default install on the boot sector only in a few cases, > > > like finding pqmagic or system commander on it, is that it? > > > > I use Acronis Operating System Selector rather than pqmagic because > > a) It knows ext3 and reiserfs and b) it's cheap. > > > > My default Mandrake install always wants to install to MBR - it would > > be nice if it could recognise acronis, as it gets very messy if I'm > > too quick on the install and forget to set to the boot sector. > > send me the first sector of your MBR so that i take a magic > corresponding to acronis.
Glad to Pixel - please tell me how. It must be something like: dd if=/dev/hde count=??? of=<file-I-send-you> ?? -- Gentoo Linux (portage-2.0.27). KDE: 3.0.2 Qt: 3.0.5. AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+ 513MB. Kernel: 2.4.19-win4lin Linux user #275590 (http://counter.li.org/). up 2. #=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=#
