Newbie - Mandriva installation bootloader

[bobetjo]

Hello all,

I have the Mandrive installation on DVD. It gets almost all the way through the installation and then asked where I want the bootloader.

Whatever I choose, apart from 'skip' gives a device does not exist message.

I tried reinstalling from scratch but I got the same result. All it accomplished was to nibbble away at my hard drive by doing another partition.


I will be gratefull for your help.

If you can't suggest a solution, how about a way of recovering the wasted space on my HDD and I'll try a different flavour.

regards and thanks

BOB

[Kojak]

Boot again with the DVD, hit F1 for advanced options. Go to the repair section and select "reinstall bootloader". Once this is done, reboot the machine. Does it work now?

[bobetjo]

Thank you for the quick repsonse Kojak,

It spotted a couple of missing files but failed to re-install.

error message was "run_program canot output to /root/tmp/.drakx-stder.1284"

whatever that means

BOB

[Kojak]

Oh, that's nasty. Just a question: Did you make sure that the CD image you downloaded was okay and did match the md5sumcheck? Maybe you got a corrupt download and / or a bad burn that bombs out the bootloader installation. My experience is that quite often, those problems appen due to a bad burn or corrupt download.