> Teilhard Knight wrote: > > > Can you think any reason why Mandrake 10.0 Community, and also the > > Official, report that there is a sector of 80 Gb, and another sector > > of 891 !! Gb overlapping? > > > > When I installed the Official for a second time, I got a worse thing > > saying that the partition table was too messy for Mandrake. I trusted > > the offer to fix the problem and I went to the dogs with 4 OSs > > installed in my 120 Gb disk. It even disappeared from the BIOS. I do > > not want to tire you with what I did to fix this. > > > > I have checked now possible problems in the partition table with > > different tools, and there are none. > > > > I am now trying to install and at the end LILO fails to install > > everywhere, so I cannot boot. > > > > What on earth is going on? > > > > Teilhard > > > Did you have to install anything like disk manager in order to use the > entire drive? These programs normally load a BIOS extension in the > master boot record. Depending on where you tell LILO to install itself, > it can overwrite this, and make a mess of things.
No, I don't have any disk managers installed. Actually, the disk is 160 Gb and not 120Gb (in another machine), but I have a modern motherboard (ASUS A7V333) which does recognize the full length of the drive. But as I pointed out in my post, I have been double checking in many ways the partition table and it is free of problems. > You can also run into problems if the drive was original set up in one > mode, and you changed it to another one. Switching between LBA, Large, > and Normal can do some interesting things. Normally the system just > doesn't boot, but some OSs "remember" what the disk was set up for when > they were installed, and ignore the change... There are probably other > causes, but this is all that comes to mind right now... > > Mikkel Well, the problem is not precisely that the system doesn't boot after installing. The problem is that LILO doesn't get installed at the end. What the heck, I have seen weirder things. Thanks for your feedback. Teilhard. ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through CWMail: http://www.crosswinds.net
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