Tried to installed Mandrake 8.0 on a dual boot system with
the following problems:
1. It would not recognize a Logitech IFeel optical
mouse. So went back to a standard 3 button mouse.
2. In expert mode when it came to making a boot disk
it offered only an sda drive to make a floppy boot
disk. No work around I know of for this since there
is only an fd0 floppy drive on this system.
3. Do to a error on my part the MBR was trashed. The
follow is from an fdisk of /dev/hda1:
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/hda1: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 636 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1p1 ? 120513 235786 925929529+ 68 Unknown
Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(116, 100, 32) logical=(120512, 47, 32)
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(288, 101, 46) logical=(235785, 20, 46)
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary:
phys=(288, 101, 46) should be (288, 254, 63)
/dev/hda1p2 ? 82801 116350 269488144 79 Unknown
Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(357, 32, 43) logical=(82800, 34, 51)
Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(0, 13, 10) logical=(116349, 218, 61)
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary:
phys=(0, 13, 10) should be (0, 254, 63)
/dev/hda1p3 ? 33551 120595 699181456 53 OnTrack DM6 Aux3
Partition 3 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(345, 32, 19) logical=(33550, 137, 11)
Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(324, 77, 19) logical=(120594, 153, 54)
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary:
phys=(324, 77, 19) should be (324, 254, 63)
/dev/hda1p4 ? 86812 86813 10668+ 49 Unknown
Partition 4 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(87, 1, 0) logical=(86811, 142, 3)
Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(335, 78, 2) logical=(86812, 225, 45)
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary:
phys=(335, 78, 2) should be (335, 254, 63)
Partition table entries are not in disk order
The following is from an cfdisk of /dev/hda:
Disk Drive: /dev/hda
Size: 30020272128 bytes
Heads: 255 Sectors per Track: 63 Cylinders: 3649
Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Label] Size (MB)
---------------------------------------------
hda1 Boot Primary Win95 FAT32 5239.51
hda2 Primary Linux ext2 8258.19
hda3 Primary Linux ext2 8258.19
hda5 Logical Linux ext2 24.68
hda6 Logical Linux swap 139.83
hda7 Logical Linux ext2 8093.68
Is there a way to reconstruct the MBR from this info?
If so, would that person or persons please advise.
I was lucky, in that SuSE Linux 7.1 is on hda5, hda6 hda7
and I had a boot disk so that it is possible access SuSE.
And that is what makes it possible to send this request
for help.
The Mandrake 8.0 has been installed on hda3 and I have
looked at it with SuSE. Now if I can get a boot disk for
it then it will be usable. And still correct the MBR.
TIA
Clay Stapleton
Scottsdale, Arizona
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