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By sven (Mon Feb 23, 2004 at 01:47:28 AM EST) (all tags)
At the start of the evening I had a scanner that only works in Windows, and my main machine only running Linux. At the end of the evening I still have the scanner.

Tonight I have managed to erase three (3) master boot records. That has to be some kind of world record.


Today the guys at work brought in my new scanner that they had bought in America for me. It only works in Windows, so this evening I decided I would install Windows 98 on my machine so I could try it out.
  • First I installed Windows, then deleted the MBR on the Windows drive while attempting to add it to the grub boot menu.
  • Secondly I installed Windows, then went to boot into Linux to copy some drivers across. Windows had deleted the MBR on the Linux harddrive during the installation.
  • Unable to find my grub rescue CD, I tried the Debian rescue CD, but got a FATAL: kernel too old error.
  • Next I connected my Linux harddrive to my P133. I didn't have grub on this machine so I tried using LILO to make my machine bootable. It didn't work, so I gave up for the evening.
  • Instead I went to install grub on my P133 and check my email. However, my attempts to get LILO onto my other harddrive had resulted in LILO becoming unbootable on this machine.
  • I discovered that the CDROM in the P133 no longer opens. I also discovered that I don't have a paperclip to open it manually. After finding a spare CDROM, I made the P133 boot again with the Debian rescue CD.
Overall, I consider the evening unsuccessful.
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Linux by hulver (5.50 / 2) #1 Mon Feb 23, 2004 at 01:51:16 AM EST
It just worksTM
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Do you live anywhere near South West London? by Herring (5.00 / 1) #2 Mon Feb 23, 2004 at 02:57:05 AM EST
We may have some vacancies coming up. You sound like the sort of person who would fit right in.



Not even close by sven (3.00 / 0) #4 Tue Feb 24, 2004 at 01:33:21 AM EST
A little over 14,000km away I believe, so by the time I got half way to work it would be time to turn around and go home again. Thanks for th eoffer though, it's been a while since I've worked in a place like that.

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MBR's are the devils turds by gazbo (5.00 / 1) #3 Mon Feb 23, 2004 at 03:46:23 AM EST
There seriously must be a better way.  I've had to reinstall exactly twice, both due to MBRs getting fucked.  First time was trying to install Linux to dual-boot with my existing Windows setup (I don't recall exactly what happened, but I have a feeling I don't blame Linux for the ensuing data loss so much as fucking MBRs).  Second time was when I bought a new motherboard, resulting in my HDDs getting plugged in to different controllers to what they were before.  Boy did it not like that.

Bag of shite.

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