Bullitt
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A few days ago, I was the victim of a borked 'nix install. The daily-build installer couldnt grab some packages because they were broken, blah blah blah, I cancelled the install via the menu.
Of course, it had to mess with my MBR and I got the dreaded "cannot load operating system" after a reboot. No problem, slap in XP disk (XP Sp2 and Textmode SATA drivers pre-loaded via Nlite) hit F10 and jump into recovery console and isssue the fixboot and fixmbr commands.
No dice. What am I missing here? The raid drivers are loaded on the disk, the install using said disk worked well until I got the wild hair up my butt to go install 'nix on a pre-defined empty partition, the system was working (aka it rebooted properly for three days before I had time to mess with a 'nix install) so I feel the textmode RAID/SATA drivers were properly slipstreamed. During recovery console, I see windows loading the "Nvidia SATA Raid drivers (required)" and I can get into recovery console on the c:\windows without a hitch.
System is a Shuttle SN85g4v3 (Nforce 3 250 ultra chipset) using a pata optical drive and a sata hdd. Partitions are now (according to windows) a 15gb, 100gb, and roughly 38gb free.
What did I neglect? Fixboot and fixmbr didnt do the trick, unless I missed some program switches.
Of course, it had to mess with my MBR and I got the dreaded "cannot load operating system" after a reboot. No problem, slap in XP disk (XP Sp2 and Textmode SATA drivers pre-loaded via Nlite) hit F10 and jump into recovery console and isssue the fixboot and fixmbr commands.
No dice. What am I missing here? The raid drivers are loaded on the disk, the install using said disk worked well until I got the wild hair up my butt to go install 'nix on a pre-defined empty partition, the system was working (aka it rebooted properly for three days before I had time to mess with a 'nix install) so I feel the textmode RAID/SATA drivers were properly slipstreamed. During recovery console, I see windows loading the "Nvidia SATA Raid drivers (required)" and I can get into recovery console on the c:\windows without a hitch.
System is a Shuttle SN85g4v3 (Nforce 3 250 ultra chipset) using a pata optical drive and a sata hdd. Partitions are now (according to windows) a 15gb, 100gb, and roughly 38gb free.
What did I neglect? Fixboot and fixmbr didnt do the trick, unless I missed some program switches.