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					| Titel: RC4- Installation Problems  Verfasst am: 12.09.2006, 05:00 Uhr |  | 
  
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          | Hello all, 
 I am unable to install RC4 onto to my machine (desktop- AMD 64- 512MB RAM).
 
 I have partitioned the hard drives and allocated 20GB for Kanotix.
 
 I followed the routine procedure of installing ( something i have been successful doing on a few diffrent machines). I have installed GRUB to MBR.
 
 The Kanotix Installer Dialog box says the installation is complete.
 When I restart the my machine the GRUB does not pop up. I have WinXP and it gets loaded up. The dual boot screen does not come at all.
 
 I reinstalled it again, on some suggestions from IRC. But no success.
 
 When I put the live CD and try to give a restor GRUB command.
 It returns as error saying GRUB returned an error1.
 
 Please help......
 
 Thanks in advance.
 
 Regards,
 tronix_utSahi,
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					| Titel: RE: RC4- Installation Problems  Verfasst am: 12.09.2006, 08:01 Uhr |  | 
  
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          | Zitat: 
I have partitioned the hard drives and allocated 20GB for Kanotix.
We need to know more about your system's configuration. What drives do you have and how are they connected to the computer? Master and slave drive(s) of primary and secondary IDE channel? SATA drives?
 
 Please also post the output of
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sudo fdisk -l
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					| Titel: RE: RC4- Installation Problems  Verfasst am: 14.09.2006, 04:49 Uhr |  | 
  
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          | Hello, 
 I have a SATA hard drive as well as a IDE hard drive.
 
 I have tried installing Kanotix unto my SATA HDD.
 
 The output of sudo fdisk -l is as follows:
 
 
 root@0[knoppix]# sudo fdisk -l
 
 Disk /dev/hdb: 20.4 GB, 20411080704 bytes
 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2481 cylinders
 Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
 
 Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
 /dev/hdb1   *           1        1241     9968301    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
 /dev/hdb2            1242        2481     9960300    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
 /dev/hdb5            1242        2481     9960268+   b  W95 FAT32
 
 Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
 Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
 
 Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
 /dev/sda1   *           1        1789    14370111    7  HPFS/NTFS
 /dev/sda2            1790        9729    63778050    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
 /dev/sda5            1790        3064    10241406    7  HPFS/NTFS
 /dev/sda6            3065        4346    10297633+   7  HPFS/NTFS
 /dev/sda7            4347        5628    10297633+   b  W95 FAT32
 /dev/sda8            5629        6910    10297633+   b  W95 FAT32
 /dev/sda9            6911        9536    21093313+  83  Linux
 /dev/sda10           9537        9729     1550241   82  Linux swap / Solaris
 root@0[knoppix]#
 
 
 All help is appreciated.
 
 Regards,
 tronix_utSahi
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					| Titel: RE: RC4- Installation Problems  Verfasst am: 14.09.2006, 09:46 Uhr |  | 
  
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          | Apparently, the smaller hard drive (hdb) is configured as "slave drive" at the primary IDE channel. Which drive is hda, i.e. master drive at the primary IDE channel? What is the BIOS boot sequence for these drives? 
 hdb and sda both hold windows formatted partitions. On which partition is your windows install and where is windows bootloader ntldr located?
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					| Titel: RE: RC4- Installation Problems  Verfasst am: 15.09.2006, 12:04 Uhr |  | 
  
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          | Hello, 
 There is no master drive on my system.
 
 The BIOS boot sequence: The first boot device is my CD ROM
 The second boot device is my SATA HDD.
 
 
 My windows is installed on sda1 partition of the SATA HDD.
 
 Can you please tell me what is windows bootloader ntldr.
 Where can I find it.
 
 Thanks for all the help rendered.
 
 Regards,
 tronix_utSahi,
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					| Titel: RE: RC4- Installation Problems  Verfasst am: 15.09.2006, 12:33 Uhr |  | 
  
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          | ntldr should be on the partition where you installed windows. Sometimes people manage to install windows on a partition that isn't marked as "active", and the windows bootmanager ntldr is located on a different partition. But this doesn't seem to be a problem here. 
 Can you reinstall grub without errors if you disconnect hdb before booting off the LiveCD?
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					| Titel: RC4-Installation Success  Verfasst am: 19.09.2006, 05:12 Uhr |  | 
  
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          | Hello, 
 
 I removed my second hard drive - hdb and installed kanotix and it worked well.
 
 I got the dual boot screen for WinXP and Kanotix.
 
 Also, I later connected my second hard drive- hdb after the installation and all is working well now.
 
 Thanks a lot for the help.
 
 Could you please explain the logic behind this excersie?
 
 Regards,
 tronix_utSahi
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					| Titel: RE: RC4-Installation Success  Verfasst am: 19.09.2006, 08:55 Uhr |  | 
  
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Could you please explain the logic behind this excersie? 
I suspect your drives aren't set up properly. If you attach a single drive to an IDE channel it should be configured as "master drive" (=hda). |  
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					| Titel: RE: RC4-Installation Success  Verfasst am: 19.09.2006, 11:08 Uhr |  | 
  
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          | Hello, 
 I have purposely configured the harddrive as a slave by setting up the appropriate jumpers at the back of the HDD.
 
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					| Titel: RE: RC4-Installation Success  Verfasst am: 19.09.2006, 11:11 Uhr |  | 
  
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          | That's interesting. Why? |  
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