[Wolves] Ubuntu again

[Kevanf1]

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 19:19:02 +0000 (GMT), Adam Sweet <drinky76 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>  --- Kevanf1 <kevanf1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > So, why on earth would
> > a supposedly live CD put - or attempt to put - grub
> > onto the primary
> > hard drive?  It just shouldn't happen failing hard
> > drive or not.
> 
> Agreed, report this as a bug. Try the fixmbr command
> from the Win2k CD repair console.
> 
> You could also try the win98 boot floppy idea thats
> going on in the other mbr thread, with the command
> fdisk /mbr
> 
> If you disk isn't borked, one of these 2 ways should
> work. Try the first one first as it's the 'NT Way',
> whereas the other is the win9x way, in case there's
> any diff between the way the 2 write mbrs. I don't
> know to be honest. I don't even know if mbrs are
> formatted in anyway, or just use bit mode access or
> whatever it's called, as it happens. It doesn't matter
> really though, let's face it, it can't get any worse
> ;)
> 
> Read the other thread. And try to get your disk
> recognised in the BIOS, or on another machine if
> necessary. Just so you can solve part of the problems.
> 
> Ad
> 

He, he, I have tried following my own advice on this particular drive
.......... and it didn't work.  Mainly because the BIOS still does not
even see the drive.  As I said this is bloody big coincidence but
coincidence it surely is.  I had a few of these 8.4gb Quantum drives. 
Every one has died after very little use.  I am so glad I did not pay
for them :-))))  I shall try the disk in another 'older' PC just in
case as I really do not much like this Gigabyte Motherboard.  Linux
doesn't like it at all and I can't be bothered to mess about with
IDEREVERSE to sort out some other problems - RAID/extra ide channels,
long story that I have mentioned before.

Oh, yes, I went straight onto the Ubuntu bugzilla page and logged it
:-))))  It's certainly causing some head scratching and I totally
agree with them that a 'live' CD cannot and should not make changes to
a hard drive.  But this one has.
-- 
Take care.
Kevan Farmer

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