"H. Narfi Stefansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Sunday 22 September 2002 15:16, Todd Lyons wrote:
> > -L- wrote on Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 10:31:05PM -0500 :
> > > 2 out of 5 times that i have installed mandrake9.0RC3 the installer
> > > fails to install the bootloader because it requests for it on CD1,When
> > > you put cd1 it will not find it on there and keep requesting. So you
> > > have to restart the install or boot off a floppy. I believe the
> > > bootloader is on CD3.
> >
> > No, the lilo rpm is on CD1, the code that instantiates it is on the
> > ramdisk that got loaded from CD1.  If it asks for CD1, that means that
> > something didn't get installed earlier in the install process, but at
> > this point, it's really too late to go back to CD's (that's why lots of
> > things are copied to a temporary cache directory during the install)
> >
> > Blue skies...                       Todd
> 
> Guillaume, isn't the same thing going on there as I reported?

I don't know; the culprit was buggy handling of bttv cards.


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Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/

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