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

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