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Re: [PLUG] Does this sound like a lemon?
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Have had similar problems. Used Norton to get in and kill the MBR.
(Norton 8) The MBR had to be killed so absolutly as to torch everything
else. The simplist way is to file zeros in the MBR and start over since
this machine supposedly contains nothing that you wish to save.
You can do this from debug. There is a means. I would recommend talking
to the people from Freedos first. One problem might be an overlay program
like discwizard that keeps the actual works protected.
In my case, it was the overlay program, attached to my efforts to install
a working LINUX.
bs
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, LeRoy Cressy wrote:
> From what I am reading it seems that fdisk never removed the FAT
> partitions. Thus if the FAT partition was never removed but only
> renamed like /boot you never removed the Windows garbage.
>
> I would do a clean install with removing all partitions with a Linux
> fdisk or cfdisk. Have fdisk write the blank partition table and exit.
>
> Reboot the system and see what happens.
>
> If the system still has a FAT partition along with DOS/Windows then it
> seems to me that your bios might be preventing you from removing the FAT
> boot partition or from writing to the MBR. If this is the case you
> might want to prob the bios aand see what is preventing you from setting
> up your system.
>
> As a final approach I would low level format the HD if it is not a
> Seagate drive. If you lowlevel a Seagate drive you void the warranty on
> the drive.
>
>
>
> >
> > Here's where it gets weird... Also in that directory were command.com,
> > io.sys, a progra~1 directory, and a windows directory (along with a few
> > other non linux files). I tried to delete the windows stuff and it
> > said read only file system canot delete. Odd (keep in mind I fdisked
> > and did quick formats on all drives) Out of curiosity I booted to the
> > HD. Up came Windows ME...I decided to take another tack and booted up
> > a suse cd rescue disk and removed the /boot partition (/dev/hda1) wrote
> > the table, then added it back and re-wrote the table. I then booted up
> > with the floppy again. Lo and behold, no boot partition, but the
> > windows crap was now in root...
> >
> > Grrrrr.... I then decided to get a windows floppy, did a win95 fdisk,
> > removed all the partitions, and booted the HD again. OK, no WinMe. I
> > reinstalled with the Slack boot and root floppies (still had the lilo
> > issue) and lilo still doesn't work. Further, the windows crap is back
> > in the boot directory. How could this happen? (The disks were made by
> > rawrite on an XP box, btw)
> >
> > Further, I'm getting hostname kernel: hda: dma-intr status=0x51 {
> > DriveReady SeekCompleteError }
> > hostname kernel: hda: dma-intr status=0x84 { DriveStatusErrror
> > BadCRC}
> > in syslog unless I turn of DMA with hdparm. I googled and found this
> > could be due to cabling or a bad HD. I welcome any thoughts on those
> > errors (keeping in mind the above behavior)
> >
> > Lastly, I'm getting FAT errors in dmesg
> > FAT Bogus LogicalSector size 0
> > FAT: Did not find valid FSINFO signature
> > Directory 1 bad FAT (Along with File system Panic)
> >
> > So, did I get a lemon, or am I missing something obvious...
> >
> > Thanks for any help.
> >
> > Rob Carlson
> >
> >
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