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Richard Bown wanted us to know:
>How many blocks of data are allocated to the mbr ?
The very first sector, 512 bytes.
>is it the same for all OS's ?
It's not a function of the OS, it's a function of the architecture.
>what would happen if one OS u
On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 21:55, Greg Meyer wrote:
> On Sunday 02 November 2003 05:21 pm, Eric Huff wrote:
> > > I'd say you have "Virus Protection" set to "Yes" in the BIOS.
> >
> > What's that, where the bios doesn't allow you to run or even look at
> > Windows partitions? :)
>
> The BIOS prevents
On Sunday 02 November 2003 05:21 pm, Eric Huff wrote:
> > I'd say you have "Virus Protection" set to "Yes" in the BIOS.
>
> What's that, where the bios doesn't allow you to run or even look at
> Windows partitions? :)
The BIOS prevents you from writing anything to the mbr of the drive as a
prote
> I'd say you have "Virus Protection" set to "Yes" in the BIOS.
What's that, where the bios doesn't allow you to run or even look at
Windows partitions? :)
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Richard Bown wanted us to know:
>> I'd say you have "Virus Protection" set to "Yes" in the BIOS.
>No Todd that was one of the first thing s to look for
Then I'd boot into rescue mode and run one at a time fdisk, cfdisk, and
diskdrake and look at the
On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 21:40, Todd Lyons wrote:
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> Richard Bown wanted us to know:
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> >I really must disagree with you on this Greg, if this was so , how come
> >I can move a drive thats had winxp, into a machine thats happily running
> >linux an
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Richard Bown wanted us to know:
>I really must disagree with you on this Greg, if this was so , how come
>I can move a drive thats had winxp, into a machine thats happily running
>linux and get problems on an install, normally when the partition table
On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 19:15, Greg Meyer wrote:
> On Sunday 02 November 2003 01:01 pm, Richard Bown wrote:
> > Hi
> > got 9.2 on that thing at last, noapic and acpi=off ( OK Greg :) )
>
> Hey, hey, great news!! Thanks for sticking with it, your friend won't be
> sorry. Don't forget to send Tom t
On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 11:15, Greg Meyer wrote:
> On Sunday 02 November 2003 01:01 pm, Richard Bown wrote:
> > Hi
> > got 9.2 on that thing at last, noapic and acpi=off ( OK Greg :) )
>
> Hey, hey, great news!! Thanks for sticking with it, your friend won't be
> sorry. Don't forget to send Tom t
On Sunday 02 November 2003 01:01 pm, Richard Bown wrote:
> Hi
> got 9.2 on that thing at last, noapic and acpi=off ( OK Greg :) )
Hey, hey, great news!! Thanks for sticking with it, your friend won't be
sorry. Don't forget to send Tom the dmesg output so he can get the install
kernel to recogn
Hi
got 9.2 on that thing at last, noapic and acpi=off ( OK Greg :) )
BUT it took 3 installs to do it,
first bombed out loading an object file for newt
the second just hung after selecting the files to load
third time it went in , each time was an install and each time all
partitions were formatte
Richard Urwin wrote:
On Sunday 02 Nov 2003 10:14 am, Richard Bown wrote:
Thanks Thomas
I drive over after lunch and attack the machine again,
and post the data to the group as well as yourself.
I still have this gut feeling about microsoft, for instance on a machine
with 2 HDs one has winxp on
Richard Bown wrote:
Thanks Thomas
I drive over after lunch and attack the machine again,
and post the data to the group as well as yourself.
I still have this gut feeling about microsoft, for instance on a machine
with 2 HDs one has winxp on it the other MDK 9.1 if you mount the drive
with winxp
On Sunday 02 Nov 2003 10:14 am, Richard Bown wrote:
> Thanks Thomas
>
> I drive over after lunch and attack the machine again,
> and post the data to the group as well as yourself.
>
>
> I still have this gut feeling about microsoft, for instance on a machine
> with 2 HDs one has winxp on it the ot
Thanks Thomas
I drive over after lunch and attack the machine again,
and post the data to the group as well as yourself.
I still have this gut feeling about microsoft, for instance on a machine
with 2 HDs one has winxp on it the other MDK 9.1 if you mount the drive
with winxp on it then as root
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 15:50, Richard Bown wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 23:17, Greg Meyer wrote:
> > On Saturday 01 November 2003 05:42 pm, Richard Bown wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 19:20, Greg Meyer wrote:
> > > > > This is not the first time I've had major probs installing MDK after
> > >
From: "Richard Bown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 23:17, Greg Meyer wrote:
> > Unless I am missing something that you have not brought up, the errors
you are
> > describing generally refer to the IDE controller itself and not the hard
> > drive. I/O APIC and ACPI problems generally
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 23:17, Greg Meyer wrote:
> On Saturday 01 November 2003 05:42 pm, Richard Bown wrote:
> > On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 19:20, Greg Meyer wrote:
> > > > This is not the first time I've had major probs installing MDK after
> > > > winxp has been on a HD..
> > >
> > > Problem has nothin
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 22:47, Bill wrote:
> If you want to erase the mbr try using an old DOS 6.2 install disk. Boot it
> and use the command fdisk /mbr that should do the trick.
Thanks Bill, but I did that :((, and I used the win98 install to
completely format the HD and write to the partition t
Often times it is easier to blame someone else - especially if it is the
evil empire - than to try to find a solution.
When I loaded 9.1 on my brand new laptop w/ XP Pro, it was the smoothest
linux install I ever did (which may or may not indicate a positive
experience ;^) - it was good!
Windows
On Saturday 01 November 2003 05:42 pm, Richard Bown wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 19:20, Greg Meyer wrote:
> > > This is not the first time I've had major probs installing MDK after
> > > winxp has been on a HD..
> >
> > Problem has nothing to do with the fact that WinXP has already been on
> > th
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 19:11, James Sparenberg wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 10:58, Richard Bown wrote:
> > Hi all
> > Run up against winxp again, I'm sure they are playing foul.
> > My friend recently had his PC stolen after all the hard work getting
> > everything sorted.
> > So he has his new ma
If you want to erase the mbr try using an old DOS 6.2 install disk. Boot it
and use the command fdisk /mbr that should do the trick.
On Star Date Saturday 01 November 2003 11:11 am, James Sparenberg sent this
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> On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 10:58, Richard Bown wrote:
> > Hi all
>
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 19:20, Greg Meyer wrote:
> On Saturday 01 November 2003 01:58 pm, Richard Bown wrote:
>
> > So went to load MDK 9.2 on it, starts up finds both HD's but fails to
> > get an interrupt response and says protection level >= 1.
> > So disconnect the first HD and swap over the ca
On Saturday 01 November 2003 01:58 pm, Richard Bown wrote:
> So went to load MDK 9.2 on it, starts up finds both HD's but fails to
> get an interrupt response and says protection level >= 1.
> So disconnect the first HD and swap over the cables so the second HD
> looks like the only drive sam
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 10:58, Richard Bown wrote:
> Hi all
> Run up against winxp again, I'm sure they are playing foul.
> My friend recently had his PC stolen after all the hard work getting
> everything sorted.
> So he has his new machine 2.2GHz Athlon and 2 40 GB drives., both
> formated NTFS wit
Hi all
Run up against winxp again, I'm sure they are playing foul.
My friend recently had his PC stolen after all the hard work getting
everything sorted.
So he has his new machine 2.2GHz Athlon and 2 40 GB drives., both
formated NTFS with winXP.
He wants one with winxp on it and 1 with linux.
So w
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