I think that the questionable partition is the /boot. Did you specify
that in DiskDrake as your /boot partition? Did you tell lilo to use the
hda1 or hda to install the boot loader?
Suggestion, try using FDISK instead of diskdrake. Diskdrake is a very
handy tool, but it isn't perfect. Also, you are dealing with a 100+gig
drive???? Geez.. ;-) Maybe your having problems because of that (as it
is unusally big!) (that didn't sound good...) anyway.
Make sure you have the most recient version of bios update on your
motherboard too.
BTW, your not having the second CD ROM won't (shouldn't) make a
difference.
Cheers
.mark
On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Timothy R. Butler wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> I'm a new Mandrake user from over in the SuSE-world, and I'm having trouble
> getting Mandrake to install properly. The main problem I'm encountering, is that
> it seems that the boot loader is never installed. When it gets to the step to
> install it, it simply says "Can't divide HASH by zero", and if I click okay it
> goes onto X-config. Perhaps it's my odd partition setup:
>
> hda1 [/boot for suse 15 megs]
> hda2 [Windows 98 9 gigs]
> hda3 [Linux Extended]
> hda5 [Mandrake 1.4 gigs]
> hda6 [Linux Swap 133 megs]
> hda7 [SuSE Linux 6 gigs]
>
> However I tried telling Mandrake to overwrite my /boot (for SuSE - hda1), and
> it wouldn't install it that way either. To make matters worse, it refuses to write
> to my diskette drive to create a boot disk - leaving no way to boot the system
> (under "Expert" however, I can get it to write a copy of the installation settings
> to disk).
>
> I haven't encountered these problems with SuSE, RedHat, QNX, or Caldera Linux
> Technology Preview (which, by the way, I previously had installed in the same
> partition I now have Mandrake in).
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Tim
>
> PS: I'm using the ISO image for disc one of LM only, not the "extended" CD too.
>
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