hi dan ok, now that you said you have an ATA100, the situation is different. i think for such hard disk controllers, you need to do a reverse detection. its important that your regular ide controllers are detected as hda-hdd and that your ATA controllers are detected as hde-hdh then you install on hde.
to make the detection reversed, you need to boot on the 8.1 CD, press F1 to see the boot prompt then type this: boot: linux ide=reverse if you cant see the detection messages you can disable the framebuffers and boot on this mode: boot: linux vga=0 debug ide=reverse hth dianne --- dbota <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hi db > > Hi Dianne! > > > it seems that your partition table is already > fscked > > up ... i would suggest *really* zapping the boot > > sector (usually sector 1) that contains partition > and > > booting info about your disk. > > > > to delete info on your boot sector as if your disk > is > > new, boot on rescue mode: > > How do I do that ... I have not installed > any linux yet. Use the mandrake 8.1 CD or the RH > 5.1 > CD or Boot.img floppy? > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda count=100000 > > > > where /dev/hda should be replaced with your > device. i > > I guess that would be /dev/hda1 (That's where > windows is... ) > > > dont know how many blocks/sector so to make it > safe i > > use count=100000. usually that does it for me. > > It's a 40 gig ATA100 drive ... > > > after zapping the boot sector, recreate the > partitions > > and reformat. > > Thanks for your help. > > dan > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool and more http://games.yahoo.com/
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