On 09/06/11 12:12, K L wrote:
Just thinking about it. I thought IDE HDD's were always recognised as
/dev/hd. But liveCD (in fact any boot program I use) is recognising this one
as /dev/sda.
What's going on there?
This changed some time back (I can't recall the specifics, but it was in
a 2.
> "peter" == peter writes:
> "K" == K L writes:
K> I have thrice now wiped the entire disk and re-installed, including
K> physically zero-ing out the first 512 bytes (which I understand to
K> be the MBR) so I would've expected the re-installs to deal with
K> that. But happy to give thi
> "K" == K L writes:
K> I have thrice now wiped the entire disk and re-installed, including
K> physically zero-ing out the first 512 bytes (which I understand to
K> be the MBR) so I would've expected the re-installs to deal with
K> that. But happy to give this a go tonight when I get home.
Just thinking about it. I thought IDE HDD's were always recognised as
/dev/hd. But liveCD (in fact any boot program I use) is recognising this one
as /dev/sda.
What's going on there?
I'll give that go too Jake, ta. Too late to save setup and settings.
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From:
I have thrice now wiped the entire disk and re-installed, including physically
zero-ing out the first 512 bytes (which I understand to be the MBR) so I
would've expected the re-installs to deal with that.
But happy to give this a go tonight when I get home.
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From: p
On 06/08/2011 09:54 PM, Kyle wrote:
2 or 3 yr old pc running SiS-661 chipset, celeron and 1GB. So your
average every day bog standard pc with an 80GB IDE HDD.
Ubuntu 10.10 runs fine from live CD, albeit a bit slow. Even installs
fine, albeit slow.
Used to dual-boot XP / Ubuntu till me dear
> "Kyle" == Kyle writes:
Kyle> Ben, thanks the info, but that's apparently not it. Or so it
Kyle> would seem. According to both fdisk and GParted from the
Kyle> liveCD, the boot flag is set on sda1 (/boot).
Sounds like the MBR is corrupt. From your live CD use the install-mbr
program to
Ben,
thanks the info, but that's apparently not it. Or so it would seem.
According to both fdisk and GParted from the liveCD, the boot flag is
set on sda1 (/boot).
P.S. Thanks for the lesson on partition numbering.
Ki
Hi again Kyle,
partitions on x86 hardware go like the following...
partition1 = primary = sda1
partition2 = primary = sda2
partition3 = primary = sda3
partition4 = primary = sda4
partition5 = extended = sda5 (living inside of one of the primary
partitions)
partition6 = extended = sda6 (living
Hi Kyle,
The primary or boot partition is not set to active.
Use a tool like a boot disk or anything that can set the boot partition
to "active" partition.
Thanks,
Ben Donohue
On 8/06/2011 9:54 PM, Kyle wrote:
2 or 3 yr old pc running SiS-661 chipset, celeron and 1GB. So your
average ever
2 or 3 yr old pc running SiS-661 chipset, celeron and 1GB. So your
average every day bog standard pc with an 80GB IDE HDD.
Ubuntu 10.10 runs fine from live CD, albeit a bit slow. Even installs
fine, albeit slow.
Used to dual-boot XP / Ubuntu till me dear sweet mother asked me to add
in an o
On 07/06/2011, at 5:31 PM, Rick Phillips wrote:
> I removed the /sys folder from the script that I wrote and everything
> went fine. I have not tried your script rewrite fully yet as we had a
> number of other disasters today and time was against me but I will try
> it as soon as I can.
Cool - g
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