On Sat 03 Sep 2011 at 18:31:29 +0000, joe evans wrote: > trying to install debian in a multi-boot install and two failures. > over wrote MBR in both cases, deleted partitions and started over.
You say below you did not install to the mbr. > have a computer booting windows xp prof and fedora15, now working > again. got to the points in installation to choose did not choose to > write to MBR and got other choinces like (hda0,2), and (hda0,5) but > got error message that could not write to that device. The exact wording of the error message slips my memory but it is essentially a warning. You chose to ignore it. Things didn't work out. Any reason why you shouldn't install to the mbr? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110903190840.GJ28063@desktop
