Now I'm back home, i've tried out everyone's suggestions. Bill's idea to remove the hard-disk from the boot-sequence made no difference (I'm surprised - I thought that was just something obvious that I had forgotten in my approaching senility).
The suggestion to only plug the hard-disk in after booting from the CD works - and in fact I didn't bother to boot a linux live-CD - I just went ahead (after deleteting the ttysv1 entry) and let the DragonFly DVD format the hard disk - it seems to be working so far (it is currently installing files). 2009/4/15 Simon 'corecode' Schubert <corec...@fs.ei.tum.de>: > I bet this is the "set all bits to one on CHS overflow" thing in fdisk. I'd > really like to know how we are supposed to handle this (better). > > Colin, sorry for trashing your computer. I think we are well aware of this > issue, but we simply don't know exactly how to deal with it. Could you > maybe use window's fdisk to create a large partition on the drive and then > report back how the partition table looks like? In this case we could > adjust our fdisk so that this won't happen again. > > thanks > simon > > Colin Adams wrote: >> >> What appears to have happened is that in some way it has trashed my >> disk-drive - I can still get the machine to boot from the live CD, but >> only if I physically disconnect the hard-disk first. >> >> >> 2009/4/8 Hasso Tepper <ha...@estpak.ee>: >>> >>> Colin Adams wrote: >>>> >>>> Well, if that is the case the ISO should not be available for download >>>> - there should be a fixed version. >>> >>> Well. It shouldn't be any way fatal, but in general I agree - we should >>> release 2.2.1 ASAP, really. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Hasso Tepper >>> > >