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Old 07-30-2008, 07:24 PM   #1
adrianlarsson
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Master Boot Record issue


Hi everyone,

I've installed roughly 20 Knoppix workstations at my job and never had any issue. But on one (a Compaq Evo) I installed it and when I finished and booted up I got an error telling me that the master boot record had been changed and that I needed to recover it. After doing that in BIOS it just made things worse.

I tried with a different hard drive and I still got the same error. I even installed on another Compaq Evo and didn't have this problem. How do I fix this?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
 
Old 07-30-2008, 08:29 PM   #2
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quick thought : look in the bios for virus scan and disable it, then try
 
Old 07-31-2008, 01:11 AM   #3
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Compaqs (and some other maunfs) can be a bit tricky because they often have a hidden partition on the hard disk that has the manufacturers 'manageabilty' (bios extensions) stuff built in.

I'm suspecting something to do with that and its interrelation to the on-board bios is tripping you up, but I am not quite sure what to suggest to cure it. Sometimes its only a matter of understanding the terminology and realising that what you think of as the first partition may not be what Grub sees as the first partition.
 
Old 07-31-2008, 11:11 PM   #4
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Thanks for the help, as it turns out it was just an issue with BIOS. I just had to disable Master Boot Record Security and it worked fine.

Thanks again!
 
  


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