Re: New drive--->lilo warning

1998-04-17 Thread Mark Phillips
> Re-arrange your drives like this and let me know if it fixes the situation: > > HDA - ok > HDC - Set as HDB > HDB - Set as HDC (Linux does not care where additional partitions are) I did almost this, except instead of swapping hdb and hdc, I simply detached hdb temporarily. Low and behold it

Re: New drive--->lilo warning

1998-04-16 Thread tko
Mark Phillips writes: [snip] > > Why have two "DOS" bootable drives? In my experience, "DOS" only likes to > > see > > one main bootable drive. [snip] One other item which I did not mention: The bootable "DOS" drive _must_ be the first one detectable by "DOS". > > This is the setup of my three

Re: New drive--->lilo warning

1998-04-16 Thread Marcus . Brinkmann
On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 11:01:34AM +0930, Mark Phillips wrote: > > > > I have just installed a third IDE hard drive (my board supports up > > > to 4). I have configured the BIOS. Now I want to use lilo to make it > > > possible to boot from it (it currently has DOS on it), but when I try, > > >

Re: New drive--->lilo warning

1998-04-16 Thread Mark Phillips
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Mark Phillips writes: > [snip] > > I tried booting anyway but it failed, complaining that it wasn't a system > > disk. However my Dad (whose disk it was before giving it to me) swears it > > was bootable. > > > > So what's wrong? On my father's com

Re: New drive--->lilo warning

1998-04-16 Thread tko
Mark Phillips writes: [snip] > I tried booting anyway but it failed, complaining that it wasn't a system > disk. However my Dad (whose disk it was before giving it to me) swears it > was bootable. > > So what's wrong? On my father's computer the disk was disk C: where as > now it is /dev/hdc (th

Re: New drive--->lilo warning

1998-04-16 Thread Mark Phillips
> > I have just installed a third IDE hard drive (my board supports up > > to 4). I have configured the BIOS. Now I want to use lilo to make it > > possible to boot from it (it currently has DOS on it), but when I try, > > it comes up with: > > > > # lilo > > Added linux * > > Added dos > > ide

Re: New drive--->lilo warning

1998-04-15 Thread tko
Mark Phillips writes: > > > Hi, > > I have just installed a third IDE hard drive (my board supports up to 4). > I have configured the BIOS. Now I want to use lilo to make it possible to > boot from it (it currently has DOS on it), but when I try, it comes up > with: > > # lilo > Added linux

New drive--->lilo warning

1998-04-15 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, I have just installed a third IDE hard drive (my board supports up to 4). I have configured the BIOS. Now I want to use lilo to make it possible to boot from it (it currently has DOS on it), but when I try, it comes up with: # lilo Added linux * Added dos ide: probable bad entry for /dev/