Re: [expert] 9.0 clobbers partition active flag.
Philip Webb wrote: 021128 Ron Stodden wrote: Reminder. No response to the below serious situation: I have successfully installed 9.0 on three machines. Two are all OK. On the third, Linux runs, as initiated by XOSL or by its floppy, but always after exit the active flag on the C drive (which contains XOSL) is clobbered, leaving an unbootable machine which needs an MSDOS FDISK run from the Windows startup floppy to fix it. This machine is Pentium 2, 300MHz, 64MB, 20GHB hard disk and runs Windows 98 faultlessly. I have installed two 9.0s, expert, all selected except servers, LILO, in different partitions on this machine and both have this problem. Why would anything in runtime Linux ever have reason to look at the active flag in the MBR on C:? Let alone change it? since no-one else has responded, maybe a further question: why don't you simply use Lilo to start Linux (you mention XOSL)? ie at boot, Lilo offers you the usual screen of choices you choose one. Thanks for the response, but in this case I cannot see any relevance. Selecting Linux in XOSL calls the LILO choices screen with Linux pre-selected. I hit Enter. The clobbering of the C active flag is done somewhere in the Linux runtime. I could try setting up GRUB instead of lilo - this would eliminate lilo as the cause. I could set up lilo to boot directly into Linux as you suggest, thus elinating XOSL as the cause. but XOSL could hardly be doing this, IMHO. The site is about 70km away and my next visit is on Wednesday of next week. -- Ron. [Melbourne, Australia] troels... now updated to use ftp.sunet.se server. See: http://members.optusnet.com.au/ronst/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.0 clobbers partition active flag.
Joe Braddock wrote: Maybe it's not Linux clobbering the active partition but something occuring at boot. Is it possible that the drive in question has some software installed to make it seeable by your bios? I know some of the WD drives come with software to make it compatable with older BIOS chips. What boot manager are you using? XOSL. See my other reply above. The hd is an IBM 20GB Deskstar. -- Ron. [Melbourne, Australia] troels... now updated to use ftp.sunet.se server. See: http://members.optusnet.com.au/ronst/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.0 clobbers partition active flag.
Why would anything in runtime Linux ever have reason to look at the active flag in the MBR on C:? Let alone change it? I agree. I never encountered anything like this. LILO can do those things, but you have to explicitly configure lilo to do such a thing (what does lilo.conf look like?). I don't think diskdrake is capable to configure LILO to do partition-hiding / activation while booting. How did you configure XOSL? Did you install Linux on a primary or logical partition? Does it occur each time after you booted Linux or just after install? My first guess would be the configuration of XOSL. Maybe it could be some idiot program which executes lilo -A ... at boot time (you realy installed everything?), but I doubt it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.0 clobbers partition active flag.
zephod wrote: Why would anything in runtime Linux ever have reason to look at the active flag in the MBR on C:? Let alone change it? I agree. I never encountered anything like this. LILO can do those things, but you have to explicitly configure lilo to do such a thing (what does lilo.conf look like?). I will be at this site on next Wednesday, and will get lilo.conf then. I don't think diskdrake is capable to configure LILO to do partition-hiding / activation while booting. How did you configure XOSL? Did you install Linux on a primary or logical partition? XOSL only has Windows, Linux1 and Linux2 choices. Both Linux installations are on logical partitions. Does it occur each time after you booted Linux or just after install? Immediately after quitting either Linux the BIOS complains of no active partition. My first guess would be the configuration of XOSL. Maybe it could be some idiot program which executes lilo -A ... at boot time (you realy installed everything?), but I doubt it. Expert, Install, Every group selected except servers, no individual selection. -- Ron. [Melbourne, Australia] troels... now updated to use ftp.sunet.se server. See: http://members.optusnet.com.au/ronst/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.0 clobbers partition active flag.
Reminder. No response to the below serious situation: Ron Stodden wrote: I have successfully installed 9.0 on three machines. Two are all OK. On the third, Linux runs, as initiated by XOSL or by its floppy, but always after exit the active flag on the C drive (which contains XOSL) is clobbered, leaving an unbootable machine which requires an MSDOS FDISK run from the Windows startup floppy to fix it. This machine is Pentium 2, 300MHz, 64MB, 20GHB hard disk, and runs Windows 98 faultlessly. I have installed two 9.0s, expert, all selected except servers, LILO, in different partitions on this machine and both have this problem. Not very encouraging for my customer, is it?Frankly, very embarrasing. Anybody got any ideas what to do? Why would anything in runtime Linux ever have reason to look at the active flag in the MBR on C:? Let alone change it? Beats me! -- Ron. [Melbourne, Australia] troels... now updated to use ftp.sunet.se server. See: http://members.optusnet.com.au/ronst/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [expert] 9.0 clobbers partition active flag.
Maybe it's not Linux clobbering the active partition but something occuring at boot. Is it possible that the drive in question has some software installed to make it seeable by your bios? I know some of the WD drives come with software to make it compatable with older BIOS chips. What boot manager are you using? Joeb ---Original Message--- From: Ron Stodden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11/27/02 09:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] 9.0 clobbers partition active flag. Reminder. No response to the below serious situation: Ron Stodden wrote: I have successfully installed 9.0 on three machines. Two are all OK. On the third, Linux runs, as initiated by XOSL or by its floppy, but always after exit the active flag on the C drive (which contains XOSL) is clobbered, leaving an unbootable machine which requires an MSDOS FDISK run from the Windows startup floppy to fix it. This machine is Pentium 2, 300MHz, 64MB, 20GHB hard disk, and runs Windows 98 faultlessly. I have installed two 9.0s, expert, all selected except servers, LILO, in different partitions on this machine and both have this problem. Not very encouraging for my customer, is it?Frankly, very embarrasing. Anybody got any ideas what to do? Why would anything in runtime Linux ever have reason to look at the active flag in the MBR on C:? Let alone change it? Beats me! -- Ron. [Melbourne, Australia] troels... now updated to use ftp.sunet.se server. See: http://members.optusnet.com.au/ronst/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.0 clobbers partition active flag.
021128 Ron Stodden wrote: Reminder. No response to the below serious situation: I have successfully installed 9.0 on three machines. Two are all OK. On the third, Linux runs, as initiated by XOSL or by its floppy, but always after exit the active flag on the C drive (which contains XOSL) is clobbered, leaving an unbootable machine which needs an MSDOS FDISK run from the Windows startup floppy to fix it. This machine is Pentium 2, 300MHz, 64MB, 20GHB hard disk and runs Windows 98 faultlessly. I have installed two 9.0s, expert, all selected except servers, LILO, in different partitions on this machine and both have this problem. Why would anything in runtime Linux ever have reason to look at the active flag in the MBR on C:? Let alone change it? since no-one else has responded, maybe a further question: why don't you simply use Lilo to start Linux (you mention XOSL)? ie at boot, Lilo offers you the usual screen of choices you choose one. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] 9.0 clobbers partition active flag.
I have successfully installed 9.0 on three machines. Two are all OK. On the third, Linux runs, as initiated by XOSL or by its floppy, but always after exit the active flag on the C drive (which contains XOSL) is clobbered, leaving an unbootable machine which requires an MSDOS FDISK run from the Windows startup floppy to fix it. This machine is Pentium 2, 300MHz, 64MB, 20GHB hard disk, and runs Windows 98 faultlessly. I have installed two 9.0s, expert, all selected except servers, LILO, in different partitions on this machine and both have this problem. Not very encouraging for my customer, is it?Frankly, very embarrasing. Anybody got any ideas what to do? Why would anything in runtime Linux ever have reason to look at the active flag in the MBR on C:? Let alone change it? Beats me! -- Ron. [Melbourne, Australia] troels... now updated to use ftp.sunet.se server. See: http://members.optusnet.com.au/ronst/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
