Fwd: Re: Fwd: MBR was destroyed

Jonathan Ernst jonathan at ernstfamily.ch
Sun Nov 20 12:45:51 CST 2005


Le dimanche 20 novembre 2005 à 18:57 +0100, wino at piments.com a écrit :
> On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 18:33:53 +0100, Oliver Stieber  
> <oliver_stieber at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> >  I've just tried at it appears to have wiped my MBR logged in as a normal
> > User in wheel group.
> > If this is the problem then I purchsed a new drive because of it last
> > month.
> > Oliver.
> 
> Can I have your old one ? ;)
> 
> Apart from fixing this ugly bug , it looks like something more precise  
> than "dont run as root" is needed before inviting the click-and-go windows  
> crowd to join the party.

brw-rw----  1 root disk 8, 0 nov 20 17:23 /dev/hda

If you are not part of the disk group and you are not running as root,
this cannot happen. There might be a bug in Wine, but the most important
error is people having incorrect rights set or having too much rights.


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