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.
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 --
I have been on the verge of installing 10.0 powerpack then I heard about this problem. I spent a good part of yesterday googling and reading various forums. From what I found this problem seems to be related to the 2.6 kernel and the way it handles CHS info from the bios and messes with partition tables that causes them to be unreadable by a MS FAT or NTFS system. This problem is found in Fedora, SuSE and Mandrake versions that use a 2.6 kernel. A lot of people when first hearing of this problem automatically think it is a MBR problem, but it goes deeper than that and none of the variations of fdisk /mbr will help.
From what I have read it seems that will most likely occur if any partition changes are made and the partition tables are re-written and if your drive detection in bios is set to auto. It has been stated that sometimes changing the bios setting to LBA will correct the problems as long as the tables and MBR haven't been further messed up with repair attempt with all the various utilities. I have also heard, but not verified, that kernel version 2.6.7 fixes that bug but that is a much later version than the one in the current iso's and boxed versions.
So far the best course seems to change bios setting to LBA, and do not make any changes to partition tables until you can upgrade your kernel version.
The sad part is that none of the distro developers seem to be taking this bug seriously. You will find no mention of it at any of the home pages. I guess since none of the developer types dual boot they don't think it is a major bug. In fact a reply from one jerk said just put your Windows an a separate box, like everyone can have a house full spare computers.
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Richard
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