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I apologize that this question is somewhat off topic, perhaps. I have |
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found this to be a very helpful list, and in desperation I thought to |
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turn here. |
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After installing the Sabayon mini 3.2 x86 install on my laptop, the |
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boot failed. Grub gave an error (Error number 15, If I recall |
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correctly) and did nothing. The partition record seems to have been |
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mangled. Each time I attempt another measure (booting rescue CDs, and |
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now Ubuntu, to try to repair the system (hopefully to recover the |
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several partitions that are my gentoo install), matters get worse, and |
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now from Ubuntu, gparted is unable to write to disk to install a |
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disklabel (as you can see, I have given up trying to recover by now, |
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and just want to be able to use the disk drive). |
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Sfdisk, parted, gparted, cfdisk all show no partitions, and only |
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gparted is able to really start at all. |
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I had noticed some problems trying to install to partition number one, |
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a day earlier, so I installed to another partition. |
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I think it's too late to recover the mbr. For now, gparted on ubuntu |
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can not write the "disklabel" to disk. |
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Can anyone point me to the right literature on line or other help? It |
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could be a hardware problem, but one suspects the partition table and |
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boot record. Gpart was unable to determine the sector size. |
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I am sorry for the off topic post. |
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Alan Davis |
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Alan Davis, Kagman High School, Saipan lngndvs@×××××.com 1-670-256-2043 |
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I consider that the golden rule requires that if I like a program I |
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must share it with other people who like it. |
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--------Richard Stallman |
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