Fwd: MBR was destroyed

[seorge]

Hi,

Since I'm not a developerr and therefore can't take part in any discussion 
here may I ask you to discuss the bug I reported, because Dustin Navea asked 
me to join this list. Or if nobody really need my presence here, please let 
me know and I will unsubscribe.
Thanks in advance!

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Subject: MBR was destroyed
Date: Sunday 20 November 2005 08:49
From: seorge 
To: [e-mail]

I've just submitted a bug (3889) about destroyed MBR and Dustin Navea asked
 me to subscribe to this list.
Here comes some detailed description:

As a regular user I've launched winecfg as a regular user, then proceeded to
the dist setup. I've tried several options like automatic configuration,
manual configuration. Then I've tried to change some drive letters manually.
After reboot a "PRESS A KEY TO REBOOT" message appeared instead of a GRUB
screen.
Next time I booted with grub-floppy and then restored the MBR with
grub-install /dev/hda.
Please let me know what additional information you need.
It's happend on Slackware 10.2 system, 2.6.14 kernel with ck-3 patches.

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[Marcus Meissner]

On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 05:30:39PM +0100, seorge wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Since I'm not a developerr and therefore can't take part in any discussion 
> here may I ask you to discuss the bug I reported, because Dustin Navea asked 
> me to join this list. Or if nobody really need my presence here, please let 
> me know and I will unsubscribe.

If you run WINE only as user (not as root) this just cannot happen.

Did you run WINE as root?

Ciao, Marcus

[Lionel Ulmer]

> If you run WINE only as user (not as root) this just cannot happen.

Well, except if (as in my old Slackware install), the access rights for the
disk are like this:

brw-rw----   1 root     disk       3,   0 Apr 28  1995 /dev/hda

And that the user is in the 'disk' group.

Lionel

[Dustin Navea]

seorge wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Since I'm not a developerr and therefore can't take part in any discussion 
> here may I ask you to discuss the bug I reported, because Dustin Navea asked 
> me to join this list. Or if nobody really need my presence here, please let 
> me know and I will unsubscribe.
> Thanks in advance!

You dont have to be a developer to talk here.  This is the forum to get 
ahold of developers with any major problems.  I asked you to join 
because this seems to be a major problem that should be fixed, 
regardless of whether it is a bug or just something wrong with the way 
you are trying to setup the wine environment..  and if, indeed, it is 
something wrong with the way you are trying to set it up, then there 
should either be a note in big red bold letters in the app saying dont 
do this, or at least a note about it in the manual..

I, myself, am not a developer, just a bugzilla maintainer, but I still 
post here on a regular basis.

Dustin