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So I'm installing Mandriva One 2007. No shared partitions, I'm using the entire disk. I boot on the CD just fine, the KDE GUI looks great. I run Live Install, and it wipes the HD as instructed, and seems to install all the files. The install ends, and I'm left looking at the KDE desktop. Okay, all fine and well. I reboot, and when the computer tries to boot on the HD I get the message "trouble loading operating system" and it freezes there
Are you sure the installation was completely successful? It seems to me like the bootloader was not installed to the MBR and thats why you are getting the error above.
Are you sure the installation was completely successful? It seems to me like the bootloader was not installed to the MBR and thats why you are getting the error above.
I'm not sure, because I'm seeing no visual cues that tell me how the install is ending. I see a progress bar in live install, it reaches the end, Live Install *seems* to end without an error, and then I'm left looking at the KDE desktop. (Remember, I'm running off the CD.) I let the machine sit for quite a while, thinking there might be a process going in the background I don't know about. But after a while I simply reboot the system. It tries to boot on the hard drive and I get "error loading operating system."
I googled that error and found a bunch of messages from three years ago, related mostly to WinXP and Fedora, that discuss the fact that some BIOS' identify and classify the IDE hard drive at boot time, and that early on in the boot process the OS does not know the type of IDE drive in the computer because the computer has not identified it yet. Here is the relevant link.
What I think you should do is try a distro that installs grub by default e.g. Ubuntu. If that installs and boots without any problems, then the issue will definitely be related to LILO the bootloader used by default on Mandriva. If Ubuntu does not boot, then it could be some other problem.
What I think you should do is try a distro that installs grub by default e.g. Ubuntu. If that installs and boots without any problems, then the issue will definitely be related to LILO the bootloader used by default on Mandriva. If Ubuntu does not boot, then it could be some other problem.
Can you point me to such a distro? Its name, etc. Where I would find the ISO file? Thank you again.
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