On Saturday 19 June 2004 05:42 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: > Can you think any reason why Mandrake 10.0 Community, and also the > Official, report that there is a sector of 80 Gb, and another sector of 891 > !! Gb overlapping? > > When I installed the Official for a second time, I got a worse thing saying > that the partition table was too messy for Mandrake. I trusted the offer to > fix the problem and I went to the dogs with 4 OSs installed in my 120 Gb > disk. It even disappeared from the BIOS. I do not want to tire you with > what I did to fix this. > > I have checked now possible problems in the partition table with different > tools, and there are none. > > I am now trying to install and at the end LILO fails to install everywhere, > so I cannot boot. > > What on earth is going on?
Sounds to me like you have run into a bug that Mandrake, as well as Fedora and a few others also experience. I think it is a bug in LILO. It has to do with the LBA settings in the BIOS. The bug mostly manifests itself in not being able to boot into windows after installing into a dual-boot scenario. There has been a lot of talk on the net about this, so google should help you out here. Also, you may want to try turning off LBA in the BIOS. Here's a link to the article about it on Slashdot http://slashdot.org/articles/04/05/23/1448209.shtml?tid=110&tid=187 -- /g
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