Quoting virtanen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, David Wright wrote: > > > Quoting Jason Schepman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Yes. I'm able to boot from floppies. I just can't boot from the > > > hardrive. > > > "Boot"=hda. "Root"=hdb2(location of my / filesystem). > > ^ > > It looks as if the BIOS doesn't know how to boot from the second drive. > > > > Cheers, > > I'm probably having exactly the same problem. One funny thing is that > Corel 1.1 (I had that here for some time) seemed to know how to boot from > the second disk... so it isn't only because of BIOS.
Maybe your BIOS can switch the drives and lilo hasn't been told. (I don't think I am able to do this on mine but it's no longer relevant as I don't now run mixed boxes.) Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
