Bootloader cannot be installed on hd0 (solved)
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andimint
Bootloader cannot be installed on hd0 (solved)
Hello everybody, I am installing Linux Mint 10 on my Acer Travelmate notebook right now. It is the only OS I install on this notebook. Installation worked fine until the Bootloader should be installed. I get a message that the bootloader cannot be installed on hd0 (which was standard choice at the screen where you modify partition settings...). Now the system asks me if I want to install the bootloader at another place: /dev/sda (this ist the harddisc itself) or /dev/sda6 (this will be my root-partition for linux Mint). Another alternativ is /dev/sda7 but this will be my homepartition so this makes definitly no sense...Question: should I decide for /dev/sda or the root-partition. Hope somebody can help, since I Have just this live-system I am writing this post from.Thank you!
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wayne128
Re: Bootloader cannot be installed on hd0
andimint wrote:Hello everybody, I am installing Linux Mint 10 on my Acer Travelmate notebook right now. It is the only OS I install on this notebook. Installation worked fine until the Bootloader should be installed. I get a message that the bootloader cannot be installed on hd0 (which was standard choice at the screen where you modify partition settings...). Now the system asks me if I want to install the bootloader at another place: /dev/sda (this ist the harddisc itself) or /dev/sda6 (this will be my root-partition for linux Mint). Another alternativ is /dev/sda7 but this will be my homepartition so this makes definitly no sense...Question: should I decide for /dev/sda or the root-partition. Hope somebody can help, since I Have just this live-system I am writing this post from.Thank you!
since you have only ONE Linux OS, you should install the boot loader on the MBR of the first boot drive.
it is usually /dev/sda
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viking777
Re: Bootloader cannot be installed on hd0
/dev/sda for my money.
I frequently install bootloaders on partitions but if you do that they don't get written to the mbr (which is why I do it - because I have already got something written there). In your case as you have nothing else on the puter (including the mbr presumably) then if you put it on /dev/sda6 it won't boot.
I frequently install bootloaders on partitions but if you do that they don't get written to the mbr (which is why I do it - because I have already got something written there). In your case as you have nothing else on the puter (including the mbr presumably) then if you put it on /dev/sda6 it won't boot.
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andimint
Re: Bootloader cannot be installed on hd0
ok, are you shure (cause this is not my root-partition)? sorry for asking that but i only want to make one (succesful) attempt 