On Sunday 11 Aug 2002 22:52, Pixel wrote:
> Peter Ruskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > 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= ??
>
> tha
Peter Ruskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > 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= ??
that's it, count=1 is enough
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
Pixel wrote:
> Pixel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > "Alan Hughes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > DrakX complained saying that boot loaders cannot be
> > > installed on an XFS partition.
> >
> > this is weird. both lilo and grub handle XFS correctly.
>
> uh, no, this is normal
"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 contin
Tom Whiting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > My default Mandrake install always wants to install to MBR -
> This is something I've noticed myself about Drake. Usually, I don't have
> problems with it, but still, I can see how it would create problems.
> Perhaps an option (like most have):
> Do yo
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
> > > parti
> My default Mandrake install always wants to install to MBR -
This is something I've noticed myself about Drake. Usually, I don't have
problems with it, but still, I can see how it would create problems.
Perhaps an option (like most have):
Do you want to install this to:
A> floppy
B> MBR
C> /boo
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 installat
he problem on Monday.
Devin.
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Subject: Re: [Cooker] 9.0 BETA - Bug report / Possible bug - cannot
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&quo
"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
/ Possible bug - cannot
install boot loader on XFS f
Pixel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "Alan Hughes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> [...]
>
> > DrakX complained saying that boot loaders cannot be installed
> > on an XFS partition.
>
> this is wei
Pixel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "Alan Hughes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> [...]
>
> > DrakX complained saying that boot loaders cannot be installed
> > on an XFS partition.
>
> this is weird. both lilo and grub handle XFS correctly.
uh, no, this is normal. I was thinking about *booti
"Alan Hughes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> DrakX complained saying that boot loaders cannot be installed
> on an XFS partition.
this is weird. both lilo and grub handle XFS correctly.
can you give the exact error message?
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Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 6:32 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Cooker] 9.0 BETA - Bug report / Possible bug - cannot
install boot loader on XFS f
On Friday 09 August 2002 04:26 pm, Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> m
mandrakeexpert incident 28907 forwarded to cooker.
--
Alan
quoted text below
ahughes : 09/08 12:41 : Incident created I attempted to
install Mandrake Linux 9.0 Beta 2 today on a spare partition.
This partition is already formated as an XFS file system, and
is approximately
9 GByt
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