I've used Ranish PM (couple versions) for more years than I wish to
remember, and to my great satisfaction, but there are things which
will still (and ever, I'm afraid) elude me when I'm installing new
OSes - mostly because I don't do that often enough that I'd acquire
the right reflex. This long preamble to require your help and
forgiving ...

So... I have Ranish 2.43 as my main boot loader (MBR + someplace at
the very end of the disk), with several bootable systems and more free
space than I need.

Trying to make a fresh installation of PCLinuxOS to the HD, using the
installer/partitioner from a "live" CD. Installer was asked to create
two new ext3 parts from unused space inside the existing extended and
put PCLOS onto the hard disk. It proceeded successfully as far as I
can tell, but

... when the 'puter was rebooted, Ranish (MBR) complained that there
were new partitions (so far so good) which it would not import because
they overlapped (over what ? I can't see what Ranish thought was wrong).

What is the way to (safely) check what Ranish is displeased with and
(assuming no need to worry) tell it to import the newly laid out
partitions, so it can offer to boot from the new OS ?

Alternately I suppose I could do the partitioning in Ranish first, but
since it doesn't format Linux partitions I'd have to go out of the
straight way with the PCLinuxOS installer which I'm not familiar with.

Cheers and a happy new year to eveyone on this list and their families

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Czerno