hmm..try to overwrite to boot sector to the old settings..
boot from a dos floppy and issue "fdisk /mbr"
maybe that will work 4 you.(reinstall lilo after that)
On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Timothy R. Butler wrote:
> Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 23:17:23 -0600
> From: Timothy R. Butler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [expert] Installation problem at Boot Loader install
>
> 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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