Re: installboot command failed

[Marco Beishuizen <mbeis%xs4all.nl@localhost>]

On Sat, 28 Jan 2017, the wise D'Arcy Cain wrote:

> Christos' suggestion is a good idea anyway.  I struggled for a long time 
> with an install on a drive that previously had Linux on it.  I can't 
> remember why I suddenly had the idea to zero the drive (I just did the 
> whole thing) but installation worked fine after that.
>
> Maybe we should add that command to the start of our install program.

On my laptop there was an old Windows version. After some googling I found 
out that this has something to do with differences of bootblocks between 
os's.

During installation I indicated to use the entire disk and wipe everything 
on it. So it seems a good idea to me to put something in the installer to 
zero everything, or give an ok to use the -f option.

Regards,
Marco

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