joeclark

And by "fix" I hope you mean something that will easily repair a broken installation...not just one that will not break an unbroken system. BTW: I'm trying to install the new drakxtools (10-24, but 10-29 is the current so I'm looking for that) which according to bugzilla has such a repair fix...but I can't get urpmi to install it due to perl-Libconf dependency failures....stupid dependencies...

I followed the link to the bug report.... Will someone PLEASE explain to me how to install the new drakxtools? I couldn't really find 10-24, or 10-25, 10-26, etc. I did find 10-29, but most of the FTP mirrors didn't have the correct directory structure (ie, the cooker mirror lists are wrong or something). I finally found one that had the file, but of course there are a bunch of dependencies on the file. I added the source to urpmi, and at first it didn't seem to work, but the second time it did (go figure). So I was able to see 10-29 on the list. It failed to install due to dependencies. It relies on perl-Libconfig (among other things), but I couldn't install perl-Libconfig due to a dependency of Libconfig::Glueconf::Passwd (or something similar). And who knows what package that can be found in (no perl-Glueconf or Perl-Passwd). Figures. This is so typical of my experiences with Linux -- that finding the answer to one problem usually involves solving 15 other subproblems, and half the time I run into a brick wall like some stupid irreconcilable dependency that has nothing to do with the actual problem I'm trying to solve. I don't know why I continue to mess with this stuff -- it's a waste of time really, except in this case it is my best hope for fixing the MBR/partition table that MDK10 installer broke. Sorry for my rant. I just get tired of the rpm stuff that never works the way I want it to. BTW: I might consider the LBA BIOS magic, except that this is on an HP laptop that has a crummy BIOS that has only an option for changing boot order...I don't think it has any settings for LBA vs auto mode. Besides, call me crazy but I still trust diskdrake more than fdisk /mbr (I guess because I'm not clear on what fidsk /mbr actually does). I'm trying to make Windows boot, not wipe out my partition table...at least, that's my goal.

Well, I installed MDK10 on my laptop (HP ZE1115), and I ran into the same dual boot problem with XP. Now, I don't have my XP installation backed up, but I don't have any critical data on it either. However, I would hope that Mandrake would have some kind of fix for this -- like a software update to the partition tool to fix whatever it is they broke in the partition table. Wouldn't that be the best solution? I don't want to mess with the windows tools and end up breaking Windows and Mandrake both(!). I'm willing to wait (for now) for Mandrake to release a patch, but from the several threads I've seen on this problem, no one has mentioned a patch to fix this rather evil bug. - Joe