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Posted: Dec. 25 2007,23:20 QUOTE
Hi Robert et al
Hope you are all having a nice day today....I'm just computing as normal....on Xmas day

I am installing DSL for my Dad today...he was so impressed with it...as he's from old skool Dos days....he was particularly impressed with Wine being able to run his old snooker game at full speed - Ubuntu was too slow for this...so well done....another convert....

I've been trying to install DSL onto his PC/hard drive all day today....bear in mind Xubuntu had been installed on the hard drive before.....

I've run cfdisk and completely deleted the partition on hda1 and set up a bootable 'Linux' partition (at 40gb). I've rebooted.
Then I've tried to install DSL 4.2 and it's installed fine but when it gets to the end DSL reports 'unable to find miniroot loader' after it tries to install Grub. I've wiped the drive a number of times but still getting the same result.
When I reboot it says 'Grub loading please wait Error 15' so grub hasn't installed.

What could be the problem here do you think? The drive is ok to my knowledge.....do you think it's something still left on the disk ( ie a previous Grub)...?

Many thanks for your advice.
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Posted: Dec. 26 2007,14:27 QUOTE
Hi again...
I've tried installing DSL 4.2.1 on another PC....I've had the same results......
I tried installing DSL 3.4 onto these PCs and grub has installed fine (and DSL has installed to hd fine)....I will now try installing 4.1 and see what happens........
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Posted: Dec. 26 2007,15:27 QUOTE
Hi
I tried installing 4.1 and this has installed ok with Grub.........
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Posted: Dec. 26 2007,17:01 QUOTE
miniroot is not used by DSL, this is typically from a 2.6 based system. Since it failed on many machines perhaps you have a bad burned cd.
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Posted: Dec. 26 2007,18:41 QUOTE
Did you wipe your MBR? Or just delete partitions? (That's not the same thing -- grub and lilo can persist in MBR.)
To wipe it:
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dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1


Wipe MBR but keep partition table intact (then reinstall grub/lilo):
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dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=446 count=1


Make a copy of your MBR to a floppy from which to boot (which will be useless in your case right now since grub errs):
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dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1

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