Jeff Tsai wrote:
> Trying to install TSL 3.0 to an older ASUS-motherboard based P3/500. Install
> from the November release, runs through the whole process fine, but after
> rebooting, I get the "grub curtain". This has happened with four different
> hard drives which were previously Windows-based HDs. I don't recall ever
> having this issue up through 2.2 and wondering what can be done to make sure
> that the HDs are prepped before beginning an installation.

In one of the ttys, you'll find output of the grub commands, but as long 
as the installer does not tell you grub failed, everything should be fine.

When installation is finished, you can change tty by hitting Alt + F2, 
Alt + F3 etc to look for clues.

One way to prep the harddisk during the beginning of an installation is 
to change to tty 2 (Alt + F2) and enter something like:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=1M count=1

Which will put 1MB of zeros at the beginning of your harddisk and thus 
overwrite both MBR and partition information. Of course you need to 
replace /dev/hda with the actual device node for your harddisk.

Warning: do not do this if you intend to use one or more of the existing 
partitions or data from them. The command makes it hard to get old data 
of the disks.. :)


c


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Christian Haugan Toldnes
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