On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 14:45, Oden Eriksson wrote: > A brand new and empty hard drive? No "bios" partition on it and such shit? > > What happens if you let it "destroy" the file system?
Okay, I solved the problem. It seems that diskdrake freaks out if there is no bootloader. This was a clean hard drive from the computer shop (my favorite, www.canadacomputers.com). It had nothing to do with the filesystem type as I originally guessed. I tried XFS, reiser, and ext3, all with this stupid "filesystem would be destroyed by LILO boot sector /dev/hda" error. I ran fdisk, and erased all partitions. Then I created one huge XFS partition. Then I ran the rescue CD and chose "regenerate boot sector" or whatever it's called. Then I reran drakx, and all went fine. So the real question is, how is a newbie, with a totally blank hard drive supposed to get along with drakx/diskdrake? Austin
