[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Higgins) writes: > I tryed to upgrade Mandrake-8.2 to 9.0beta3. I was unsuccessful. > > Attempt 1: > Durring the setup-filesystem phase, I had the error; unable to mount > /dev/hdd1 /mnt/windows. Which, I assume is do to the fact that hdd1 is a ntfs > filesystem. However, not being able to mount /dev/hdd1 is no big deal but the > installation would not let me go beyound setup-filesystem phase. It just > looped that error.
it must not be ntfs. It would not try mounting were it ntfs. or maybe it has a fat id in partition table, but really is ntfs? can you give the output of "fdisk -l /dev/hdd" ? [...] > Now at the boot-loader phase, I get the message: > Installation of bootloader failed. The following error occured: > Fatal: First sector of /dev/hda1 dosent have a valid boot signature. > > I tryed to use both MBR and first partition bootloader. Both had the same > error message. It's weird. > > I played around with the cd rescue for a little while after that. The rescue > had the error unable to open /root/message. > > Then I loaded my system up with a boot-diskette and tryed lilo. Again, unable > to open /root/message. So I touched /root/message and tryed lilo once again > and received the message wrong map. > > I attempted this on a basic Athlon desktop. > > Any suggestions? all this is weird. Can you give me /root/drakx/report.bug.gz (it esp. contains lilo.conf which seems strange)
