On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Nils Rennebarth wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 21, 1999 at 10:39:44AM -0400, Raymond A. Ingles wrote:
[...]
> > Now we get into the meat of things. I want to yank out the IDE drive...
[...]
> > I rerun /sbin/lilo, reboot, and try to boot Windows. It just says
> > "Loading win..." and sits there.
>
> Did you do sys c: from a win98 boot disk?
Nope. [slaps forehead]
[...]
> Lilo doesn't know that you changed your BIOS idea about what is supposed to
> be the boot (i.e. first) disk. You need to tell it:
>
> disk=/dev/sda
> bios=0x80
> disk=/dev/sdb
> bios=0x81
> disk=/dev/hda
> bios=0x82
Yup, that did it. I should be able to pull the IDE drive now (and get
rid of the "bios=" stuff, then.) Maybe I'll put it in the 386 in my
basement. :->
Thanks for the help! I understand a lot more about LILO now.
(BTW, free factoid: The reason I'm opening up my case is to hook up a
SCSI drive and low-level-format it for a friend. Did you know Windows 98
can't handle a drive formatted to 256 bytes/sector? Linux can. :-> )
Sincerely,
Ray Ingles (248) 377-7735 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Microsoft Windows - Ignorance is our most important resource.
