Pixel wrote:
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> Pierre Fortin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> [...]
>
> > > > Had this problem too when I upgraded to LM7.0 which wrote lilo into /dev/hda1
> > > > instead of /dev/hda... (Yes, I reported it back then...)
> > >
> > > and if that is really the pb, tell me!!
> >
> > Thanks for noticing... [leaving out comments on the lack of a bug reporting
> > system] my particular problem occured when I changed the default DOS partition
> > name to "W98" and lilo may have used that as the trigger for writing to hda1
> > instead of hda... Just speculation now. At any rate, I get quite passionate
>
> ok, now can you tell me:
>
> - what do you have on hda's MBR, lilo/grub/system commander?
LILO. But that system has been unused for 3 months since I installed 7.1
(addressed in the next message).
> or even better send me the MBR of hda (dd if=hda of=/tmp/mbr count=1)
> - your partition table?
This has long ago been corrected by finding a correct boot.* file and writing it
out to hda1... I have searched my systems and it appears that the clobbered mbr
contents, which I had saved at the time, were lost when I installed 7.1. Sorry.
> so that i can reproduce and fix (from what your're saying this bug was already
> there in mdk7.0 ?!)
Right near the end of the install, IIRC, I was presented with the proposed LILO
config; since I've always called my FAT partition "W98" (uppercase), I changed
the name and continued only to find the partition no longer bootable. Here is
the current partition table which should be similar if not identical to how it
looked when 7.0 killed hda1's mbr.
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 789 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 13 104391 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda2 * 14 166 1228972+ 6 FAT16
/dev/hda3 167 789 5004247+ 85 Linux extended
/dev/hda5 167 204 305203+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 205 479 2208906 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 480 491 96358+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda8 492 789 2393653+ 83 Linux
> thanks, cu Pixel.
I'm downloading 7.2b3 (over 56kb) and will check for this issue asap.
Thanks,
Pierre
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