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Re: Error in "Install Bootloader" step

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Walters)
Sun Nov 24 22:48:58 1996

Date: Sun, 24 Nov 96 21:44:21 -0500
From: Brian Walters <macbnr@saratoga.compassnet.com>
To: <redhat-list@redhat.com>
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>I had the EXACT same problem the first time I installed RedHat 4.0.  In
>fact, I have the exact same hardware you do:  Pentium Pro 200, 2940uw; NT
>4.0 on the /dev/sda5, linux on /dev/sdb5.  The intall program kept giving
>me errors during the "Install Bootloader" step.  It worked the second (or
>was it third) time that I installed RedHat 4.0. 

Forgive me for not keeping up, but isn't there a problem with putting the 
linux root on an extended partition. I thought I remember seeing a 
warning somewhere about that. 
RedHat??????

I know in my RedHat book for the Alpha it definitely tells you not to do 
that.



Brian Walters<------------------------------------>macbnr@compassnet.com
      "How many computers can one have before they become obsessed???"
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Dec Alpha     24mgs     3.2gigs             RedHat 3.0.3 Linux
PM6100w/dos   40mgs     1.5gigs             Mac7.5, Win3.11, Mklinux
Amd586dx4-133 20mgs      .5gigs             RH 3.0.3 Linux, Dos
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