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Re: Installation problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Anderson)
Wed Nov 27 06:56:15 1996
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 07:12:31 -0500
From: Paul Anderson <andersop@agapesystems.com>
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CC: AXTRINH@BIIVAX.DP.BECKMAN.COM
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AXTRINH@BIIVAX.DP.BECKMAN.COM wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to install the latest Redhat release on my system which consists
> of an Endeavor motherboard, a Toshiba SCSI CD-ROM 3401, 2 EIDE disks,
> 1 SCSI disk, and Tyan Yorktown SCSI adapter. The motherboard supports
> 2 EIDE interfaces; each of which has an 1Gig EIDE disk. I installed
> DOS/Win, OS2 on the disk mounted on the primary EIDE interface. The
> EIDE on the secondary interface is devoted to Linux. At the end of
> the installation it claims it cannot write to the MBR or the first
> sector of boot partition. Do you have any ideas?
>
> Andy
>
More info needed. What kind of disks? How many cylinders? What IDE
chipsets? The most common form of thsi problem I have experienced is
trying to have linux boot above the 1024 cylinder boundry. The other
problem I have had is doing an upgrade, I was forced to login, rebuild
the kernel and rerun lilo. Yet another has been one machine I had with
a CMD chipset. Feel free to email me personally for a quicker response.
Paul Anderson
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