[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Fox) writes: > Speaking of which, on my Asus A7V based machine - I have the Mandrake > Linux loaded under the /dev/hde (promise controller) and I also have > extra ReiserFS partitions on a spare (/dev/hda) drive. After a fresh > install of Mandrake, the system will not boot from the /dev/hde > partition and I have to boot in rescue mode, edit lilo.conf and add the > following: > > disk=/dev/hde > bios=0x80 > disk/dev/hda > bios=0x81
[...] > Question is, why can't the DrakX install catch this and automatically do > this for me? i wonder about this too :) now, i really don't understand why it didn't do it. what is your "boot=" line? or even better, give the whole lilo.conf + fstab.
