I have reinstalled MK 7.2 at least 8 times, because disk drake could not see my partitons, On track was the only way I could figure out to get access to the disk. I did tr fdisk too. Guess I will live with booting fm a floppy. Bruce On Sunday 26 August 2001 05:23 pm, you wrote: > "Bruce E.Harris" wrote: > > I have MK 7.2 install on my IBM Thinkpad 385XD (I gave up on MK8 for it > > since I could never get the eraser head mouse to work). I upgraded the > > HDD to a 10GB one and had a devil of a time installing. Something went > > wrong and after reboot I would get a kernel panic and lockup. After many > > reinstalls I tried OnTrack Disk Manager and was able to install MK 7.2 > > and it works great. But I have to boot fm floppy, if I try a HDD boot I > > get this error: > > > > "Error 1 loading OS. This may be due to a virus. > > 1. Shutdown. > > 2. Boot from floppy > > 3. Run ONTRACK Disk Manager > > 4. Select "Upgrade" option from Main Menu" > > > > I am afraid if I do that I will loss MK and have to reload, yet again. I > > checked /etc/lilo.conf, and it looks ok. I ran lilo, but this error > > persists. Any suggestions? > > > > TIA > > > > Bruce > > This has to do with what "Ontrack" software has done to your harddive, > and is not a Linux problem per se. I do not use Ontrack but have seen > many kinds of this disk formating/partitioning software that gets > installed with a new harddive. I think the only way around your problem > would be in un-install the Ontrack software, manually take care of disk > formating and partitioning by using Mandrake tools. If you are dual > booting, there is always the old dos standby for this kind of thing, > fdisk. Yes, you are right if you are thinking that this means a > re-install for Mandrakeski..... > > > drjung ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ----------------------------------------
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