gentoox.xbe reporting hardrive has no mbr?
gentoox.xbe reporting hardrive has no mbr?
I am having trouble loading the gentooxx.xbe file. the xbe executes just fine but brings up a loader menu that has an icon of a harddrive and one of a cd. I can ONLY select the CD icon but I have no idea why. (I installed gentoox via a stardust cd.) It says at the top that the harddrive is an unlocked fatx drive with no mbr found. Is this causing my problem or is that how all hardrives are listed?
any other ideas?
Thanks in advance!
any other ideas?
Thanks in advance!
a listing of the files currently in the e: root directory:
gentooxx.xbe
initrd.gz
linuxboot.cfg
rootfs
swap
vmlinuz
(of course the savegame directories are there as well)
but thats it as far as files go.
Thanks again for the help and any tips anyone can give.
I have deleteed and re-installed several times now witht he same results. The md5 on the download checcked out just fine, the iso burned without error, but I guess re-burning the iso is my next best guess as to what to do.
gentooxx.xbe
initrd.gz
linuxboot.cfg
rootfs
swap
vmlinuz
(of course the savegame directories are there as well)
but thats it as far as files go.
Thanks again for the help and any tips anyone can give.
I have deleteed and re-installed several times now witht he same results. The md5 on the download checcked out just fine, the iso burned without error, but I guess re-burning the iso is my next best guess as to what to do.
Re: gentoox.xbe reporting hardrive has no mbr?
I have the identical problem on my 120gb Western Digital drive. I do know my drive is locked, and yet Gentoo reports it as unlocked. I'm pretty confident GentooX has installed successfully (all 3 times I tried it).pedxing wrote:I am having trouble loading the gentooxx.xbe file. the xbe executes just fine but brings up a loader menu that has an icon of a harddrive and one of a cd. I can ONLY select the CD icon but I have no idea why. (I installed gentoox via a stardust cd.) It says at the top that the harddrive is an unlocked fatx drive with no mbr found.
Any suggestions?
Still no luck. vmlinux is definitely on E:/. I tried different BIOS'es, different methods of launching gentooxx.xbe (Avalaunch, Evox, BIOS), and the pro gentoox.xbe. Each time, it detects unlocked hd w/ no MBR. Guess last I'll try installing GentooX Pro and try with my harddrive actually unlocked.
Any other suggestions are extremely appreciated.
Any other suggestions are extremely appreciated.
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Well, I installed GentooX Pro with no luck. vmlinuz is definitely there...
Any other suggestions?!
Btw, thanks for the explaination of the MBR/unlocked drive, madskillz.
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drw-rw-rw- 0 Jul 10 05:44 TDATA
drw-rw-rw- 0 Jul 10 05:44 UDATA
drw-rw-rw- 0 Nov 15 07:07 CACHE
drw-rw-rw- 0 Sep 7 06:20 SAVES
-rw-rw-rw- -1149239296 Dec 7 01:11 rootfs
-rw-rw-rw- 268435456 Dec 7 01:11 swap
-rw-rw-rw- 977085 Dec 7 01:11 vmlinuz
-rw-rw-rw- 132 Dec 7 01:05 linuxboot.cfg
-rw-rw-rw- 337502 Dec 7 01:05 initrd.gz
-rw-rw-rw- 339424 Dec 7 02:03 gentooxx.xbe
Btw, thanks for the explaination of the MBR/unlocked drive, madskillz.