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reub2000
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Bootloader help

Post by reub2000 »

The ros installer isn't writing the bootloader to my MBR. My MBR currently contains lilo.

I tried writing it to a floppy disc, but when booting the floppy, it said that it couldn't find the partition with ros.
ThePhysicist
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Post by ThePhysicist »

ROS has to be on the primary partition on the primary drive, I think.
floppy boot works well for me, when I unplug my 1st hdd with windows xp.
I will soon change my hdds, put win xp bootloader on hdd1 (fat32) and boot from hdd2 (ntfs).
The same should work with Linux.
steveh
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possible reason for this?

Post by steveh »

I have always had the same effect. At last stage of installation, the boot sector is not written and i must manually copy the sectos from "fat32.bin".
So happens with putting reactos on 1st primary active partition.

I think reactos installer is still irritated by the presence of 2 inactive and hidden NTFS partitions as primary 2 or primary 3, is it? :shock:

And what about logical NTFS partitions in the extended partition? Do they also fool the reactos installer?
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