Re: win98 doesn't boot after Gnome install!!!

[Tom Barraza <tbarraza qfr com>]

Hmmm ... I agree with your assessment that GNOME itself is probably
not thrashing the MBR. I've looked at the BIOS settings and
they're set to use LBA on my IBM Deskstar 10.1GB drive.  I have seen
problems in the past when I tried to format the partitions in NT.
The event log in NT was filling up with messages complaining about the
firmware for the drive being out of date.  I ran this by tech support
at IBM and they told me that it was a brand new drive, therefore,
the firmware was not "out of date."  I got around the problem by
creating all FAT16 partitions in NT, but formatting them in Windoze 98.

My partition table:

Primary partition (2GB)
C:   (/dev/hda1) 2.0GB FAT16 - Windoze 98 & Windoze NT live here

Extended partition (10.1GB - 2GB)
Logical Drives:
D:   (/dev/hda5) 1.3GB FAT16
E:   (/dev/hda6) 1.3GB FAT16
F:   (/dev/hda7) 1.0GB FAT16
G:   (/dev/hda8) 1.0GB FAT16
H:   (/dev/hda9) 1.0GB FAT16
/     /dev/hda10 384MB linux (root)
/usr  /dev/hda11 981MB linux
/home /dev/hda12 502MB linux
swap  /dev/hda13 126MB linux (swap space)
remaining 8MB at end of disk unused (Disk Druid left this at end)

I do tend to copy large (50-100MB) files from my zip drive using
Windoze 98, PGP decrypt them, and unzip them, but I've never
had a problem with write errors to the disk (unlike problems of
this nature I did have with a Wester Digital drive).

I'm also positive that I didn't use any harddisk related commands
you listed.

I'm a bit at a loss, but I do appreciate you're listening.

Thanks,
Tom

(I guess I'll stop replying to the gnome-list, since this is probably
outside of the scope of GNOME by now)


Nils Jeppe wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Tom Barraza wrote:
> 
> > or linux from the NT boot loader) before installing the gnome rpm's,
> > but after installing them and rebooting, Windoze 98 no longer boots.
> 
> > how, this is the second time that an install of GNOME screwed up
> > something in the boot record (the last time, the linux boot got
> > hosed, but I was able to fix that fairly easily), I'm finding
> 
> This is definitely weird. To be honest I have doubts that Gnome is to
> blame. I think it might have triggered some other problem though that
> exists on your system. Maybe your harddisk has a problem, maybe a hardware
> problem, maybe wrong bios settings. I assume you usually do not install or
> otherwise write large amounts of stuff to the disk?
> 
> are you positive you did not use anything else harddisk related, like
> hdparm, fdisk, etc?
> 
> of course, I can only guess here  ;-(
> 
> nils
> 
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