Well,
I tried using fdisk to create the partition, and I also tried making the
partition hda4 (primary 4) rather than hda5 (logical 1), neither helped. I had
also received a suggestion that perhaps the problem was caused by backing up a
step during installation - however, I made sure not to backup during installation
too.
The end result is a full installation (which I can view by mounting the
partition in SuSE), which doesn't install a boot loader or any Linux kernel.
Once again, my hard disk layout looks like this:
> hda1 [/boot for suse 15 megs] (Mandrake mount point: /boot-suse)
> hda2 [Windows 98 9 gigs] (Mandrake mount point /mnt/windows)
> hda3 [Linux Extended]
> hda5 [Mandrake [ReiserFS*] 1.4 gigs] (Mandrake mount point /)
> hda6 [Linux Swap 133 megs] (Shared swap between SuSE and LM)
> hda7 [SuSE Linux [ReiserFS] 6 gigs] (Mandrake mount point /suse)
*I've also tried ext2 on the Mandrake partition - it doesn't work either way.
Any more ideas? I'd really like to give Mandrake a try, however it's being quite
a bit more annoying than SuSE, Caldera, or RedHat at the moment.
Thanks,
Tim
Merry Christmas to you from Universal Networks!
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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Timothy R. Butler
> Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 11:17 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [expert] Installation problem at Boot Loader install
>
>
> Hi everyone,
> I'm a new Mandrake user from over in the SuSE-world, and I'm having trouble
> getting Mandrake to install properly. The main problem I'm encountering, is that
> it seems that the boot loader is never installed. When it gets to the step to
> install it, it simply says "Can't divide HASH by zero", and if I click okay it
> goes onto X-config. Perhaps it's my odd partition setup:
>
> hda1 [/boot for suse 15 megs]
> hda2 [Windows 98 9 gigs]
> hda3 [Linux Extended]
> hda5 [Mandrake 1.4 gigs]
> hda6 [Linux Swap 133 megs]
> hda7 [SuSE Linux 6 gigs]
>
> However I tried telling Mandrake to overwrite my /boot (for SuSE - hda1), and
> it wouldn't install it that way either. To make matters worse, it
> refuses to write
> to my diskette drive to create a boot disk - leaving no way to boot the system
> (under "Expert" however, I can get it to write a copy of the
> installation settings
> to disk).
>
> I haven't encountered these problems with SuSE, RedHat, QNX, or Caldera Linux
> Technology Preview (which, by the way, I previously had installed in the same
> partition I now have Mandrake in).
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Tim
>
> PS: I'm using the ISO image for disc one of LM only, not the "extended" CD too.
>
> Merry Christmas to you from Universal Networks!
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> Information Tech. Consultant Christian Web Services Since 1996
> ICQ #12495932 AIM: Uninettm An Authorized IPSwitch Reseller
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.uninetsolutions.com
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