Re: [opensuse] RE: Damaged Master Boot Record - Solved

2007-08-06 Thread Registration Account
I have successfully installed 10.2. I thought I would explain what the problem was and how it was fixed. Firstly I need to go over the IDE hardware setup. There are 2 IDS BUS connectors. The first has 2 LBA IDE HDD, however the disk at the end of the ribbon is hardware configured as the slave an

Re: [opensuse] RE: Damaged Master Boot Record

2007-08-04 Thread Sunny
On 8/4/07, Registration Account <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Software > What exactly is the layout of your partitions (on every drive, and on the RAID volume as well)? Are the root and boot partitions on the RAID volume? Please provide the output from fdisk -l for every drive, as well as copy of y

Re: [opensuse] RE: Damaged Master Boot Record

2007-08-04 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Sat, 04 Aug 2007 11:52:34 +1000 Registration Account <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I need are 2 things. > > 1. How do I dismount all the drives to run fsck at Xterm? > > 2. How do I use fdisk to re-write MBR from xterm? > > > The second one might be difficult as there is plently > of in

Re: [opensuse] RE: Damaged Master Boot Record

2007-08-04 Thread Registration Account
Software Sunny wrote: > On 8/3/07, Registration Account <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Sorry I forgot to mention I am using ex2 File system >> and I have 1 RAID0 containing 3 partitions >> >> sorry for not advising you before. >> >> Scott >> > > So, is this software or hw raid? > > smime.p7s D

Re: [opensuse] RE: Damaged Master Boot Record

2007-08-03 Thread Sunny
On 8/3/07, Registration Account <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry I forgot to mention I am using ex2 File system > and I have 1 RAID0 containing 3 partitions > > sorry for not advising you before. > > Scott > So, is this software or hw raid? -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny) Even the most advanced

Re: [opensuse] RE: Damaged Master Boot Record

2007-08-03 Thread Registration Account
Sorry I forgot to mention I am using ex2 File system and I have 1 RAID0 containing 3 partitions sorry for not advising you before. Scott Registration Account wrote: > Thanks Jim, for the only reply that is relevant I did > try this option without success. The boot partition is > hda and the boot

Re: [opensuse] RE: Damaged Master Boot Record

2007-08-03 Thread Registration Account
Thanks Jim, for the only reply that is relevant I did try this option without success. The boot partition is hda and the bootloader option showed this partition as correct. What I need are 2 things. 1. How do I dismount all the drives to run fsck at Xterm? 2. How do I use fdisk to re-write MBR f

Re: [opensuse] RE: Damaged Master Boot Record

2007-08-01 Thread Jim Flanagan
Registration Account wrote: > I have 3 HDD in my PC. No matter which Disk I partition > to be the boot drive via the GUI Partitioner, I cannot > boot the PC from HDD. I am sure the MBR is corrupted - > I am using GRUB with NO NTFS Partitions. I cannot find > many clear directions on how to re-write

Re: [opensuse] RE: Damaged Master Boot Record

2007-07-31 Thread Rajko M.
On Tuesday 31 July 2007 10:57, Registration Account wrote: > I cannot find > many clear directions on how to re-write the MBR. Installing GRUB again will rewrite MBR. and if sector is not bad it will be fixed. -- Regards, Rajko. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional com

[opensuse] Re: Damaged Master Boot Record

2007-07-31 Thread James Hatridge
HI Scott et al.. On Tuesday 31 July 2007 17:57, Registration Account wrote: > I have 3 HDD in my PC. No matter which Disk I partition > to be the boot drive via the GUI Partitioner, I cannot > boot the PC from HDD. I am sure the MBR is corrupted - > I am using GRUB with NO NTFS Partitions. I canno

[opensuse] RE: Damaged Master Boot Record

2007-07-31 Thread Registration Account
I have 3 HDD in my PC. No matter which Disk I partition to be the boot drive via the GUI Partitioner, I cannot boot the PC from HDD. I am sure the MBR is corrupted - I am using GRUB with NO NTFS Partitions. I cannot find many clear directions on how to re-write the MBR. Can some one please help me