Re: [newbie] Bad mbr-cannot load or boot linux

2000-10-16 Thread GAPrichard
In a message dated 10/14/2000 9:19:38 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello All: I think my Master Boot Record is corrupt. My system only sees 2 gigs of 6.4 gig HD. Do I have to take it in too shop and get a low level format? I can create an extended

RE: [newbie] Bad mbr-cannot load or boot linux

2000-10-16 Thread Kelly, Christopher
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Bad mbr-cannot load or boot linux In a message dated 10/14/2000 9:19:38 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello All: I think my Master Boot Record is corrupt. My system only sees 2 gigs of 6.4 gig HD. Do I

Re: [newbie] Bad mbr-cannot load or boot linux

2000-10-15 Thread Michael
I have a 20Gb drive in a an old P100. I had to do a BIOS upgrade (as the hdd manual suggested) which made it able to understand the huge drive a little better. Then it offered a special program that made Windows able to see the entire drive but Linux could see it all even without that program. I

Re: [newbie] Bad mbr-cannot load or boot linux

2000-10-15 Thread Romanator
Larry Marshall wrote: My system only sees 2 gigs of 6.4 gig HD. Do I have to take it in too shop and get a low level format? What does "my system" mean? Windows, Linux? Via what method? I can create an extended file, but cannot load anything into it. How are you trying to do

Re: [newbie] Bad mbr-cannot load or boot linux

2000-10-14 Thread Larry Marshall
My system only sees 2 gigs of 6.4 gig HD. Do I have to take it in too shop and get a low level format? What does "my system" mean? Windows, Linux? Via what method? I can create an extended file, but cannot load anything into it. How are you trying to do this? What do you mean by