https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=976





------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED]  2003-01-22 13:00 -------


it may have changed to hde.

i'll try to allow changing those things in bootloader configuration.


------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED]  2003-01-22 19:41 -------
I tried another upgrade and the same error occurred but this time I went to a
prompt to check things out myself.  /dev/hda does exist but the installer is
looking for hda in /mnt/dev where hda is not present.  I know this is true
because if I make a file called hda and go back to the installer the problem is
resolved and it then complains that /dev/hd5 does not exist.  Would symbolic
link from using the commmand "ls -s /dev/hda /dev/mnt/dev", etc solve the problem?

Seamus



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Hi,

I was running mandrake 8.2 and decided to upgrade to mandrake 9.1 beta 2.  I
downloaded MandrakeLinux-9.1beta2-CD1.i586.iso and
MandrakeLinux-9.1beta2-CD2.i586.iso.  The check sum was correct so I burned them
onto cd, rebooted the computer and chose to upgrade when prompted.  Everything
worked fine until the installation reached the bootloader section.  The
following error was reported:

Installation of bootloader failed. The following error occured:
: Fatal: open /dev/hda: No such file or directory

No options were given to correct this problem.  I rebooted the machine and tried
using rescue to install lilo.  This failed with the same error.  Rescue was able
to restore the windows bootloader and I am currently using windows xp.  I have
tried repeating the update several times and the same error occurs.  I have not
found a way to boot linux.

I have a 60gb hard drive.  30gb is dedicated to linux and 30gb for windows.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.  

Seamus Carroll

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