On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Erik Ryberg wrote: > Hello, > > I have a 6 gig hard drive with debian on the first 4 gigs. I installed an > old SUSE last > night on the last 2 gigs in order to try out MySQL which allegedly came with > that > distribution. > > I boot debian with a boot disk as I have, sigh, Windows on another drive and > I had a > scary experience once with LILO that I don't care to repeat. > > Now I can't boot anything on my Linux drive. My boot disk (and backup boot > disks) runs > in the A drive but windows 95 starts right up each time.
What kind of boot disk do you have : ext2+lilo, fat+syslinux, loadlin or just the raw kernel ? What is its configuration ? I understand that you use the same disk for debian & suse. How did you altered the config to boot suse instead of debian ? > Seems like probably whenever I attempt to boot it tries and fails to startup SUSE, > perhaps because it is too far out in my hard drive? When you use a boot disk, there should be no concern about a too big drive (the INT13 limit applies only when booting the kernel from the HDD)
