From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Martin Althoff Message-ID: <851218468.20030722190500@tiscali.co.uk> To: Rob Ristroph <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re[6]: [9fans] Installation fails with NVIDIA card: aux/vga does not find the card. In-Reply-To: <87u19eedgm.fsf@rgristroph-austin.ath.cx> References: <72406015.20030721180944@tiscali.co.uk> <87el0jg4fn.fsf@rgristroph-austin.ath.cx> <19920271625.20030722003200@tiscali.co.uk> <87u19eedgm.fsf@rgristroph-austin.ath.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 19:05:00 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 010f9af8-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > I'd like to fix the floppy if I get the time. I would need to test on > both large (LBA) and older smaller drives, and I would need to > investigate how to detect what MBR to put on in each case (presuming > that one needs different ones). I won't be able to fiddle with that > for a bit however. It well worth to also look in great detail at the partition table. Use a tool of your choice. The dos prog PART (Ranish) does a good job or fdisk from Linux. I am using Timo Linux Rescue CD. I found what gets written into the partition table during the install has some great variance (sorry to be vage, I'll detail it later), eg. entry present, but no type set. Can you or anybody tell me what prog/script actually controlls the installation process? I mean calling fdisk, mbr, displaying the messages... I'd like to have a close look there to understand why certain errors appear. Besides, instal's are a bit of a hobby... :)