[Gloucs] Problem while installing Slackware 8.1

Guy Edwards gloucs at mailman.lug.org.uk
Fri Jun 13 17:31:00 2003


On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 16:50, Jill Tovey wrote:
> It does sound like its just not written to the MBR?
> or
> It could be that the root partition is not set to active?
> In which case: fdisk to see which partition has a * after it, then enter
> fdisk, a,1,a then the number of partitions with *.

yeah, but making it active won't work as the cd hasn't installed 
any packages to his hard drive. (he clicks install then it says 
"done" after ~5 seconds) so it's just an active blank partition.

Guy