On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 01:02:59AM -0600, Axalon Bloodstone wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Steve Philp wrote:
>
> > Axalon Bloodstone wrote:
> > >
> > > On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Axalon Bloodstone wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Steve Philp wrote:
> > > >
> > > > [big snip]
> > > >
> > > > > So, I've now moved the UDMA/66 drive onto the normal cable and the
> > > > > install there went just fine. Booting works also, so I'll wait a bit
> > > > > before I screw it up again. :)
> > > >
> > > > I'll have info in .. installer says 9mins
> > > > Will let ya know
> > >
> > > Ok i was successfull.
> > > Just tryed to isolate if it was bios boot sequence and it has zero effect.
> > > What was your ide layout, i've already moved cdrom to 2nd slave, was there
> > > still hd's on the dma33 chains?
> >
> > Nope, no other HD's. The only things in the system when I attempted the
> > install/boot on the UDMA/66 interface were the Zip drive on hdc and the
> > CDROM on hdd.
>
> ide zip drive?
Yup. I can move it off this system if it's going to make a difference.
> I finally got the 'Li' i installed a drive onto the primary ide and
> reinstalled lilo, you get the warning 'hde is not the first harddrive'
> (note just crawled out of bed so thats posibly not exact) I had to remove
> the drive, boot from floppy and reinstall lilo, reinstall the drive, and
> she boots. Now if only i could remeber the lilo option to tell it hde is
> the bios boot drive we'd both be all set
Was it that "bios=0x80" thing? I tried it, but might have gotten the option
wrong, I think I used "bios=0x84" since it was actually hde. Maybe I'll
give it another try with the drive on the UDMA/66 interface and put that
bios=0x80 into LILO.
The bad part is that I'm having to muck with all of this _after_ an
installation, but before I can actually boot the system. To work with the
system, I'm starting the installation CD routing up to the mounting the
installation CD, then switching to VC 2 and mounting the hde partition onto
mount, chroot /mnt /bin/bash and you've got yourself working in your newly
installed system!
I'll play with the thing a bit more tonight, I haven't built up enough
"junk" in this install to worry about wiping it in the name of "research"
:)
Thanks for the help Axalon!
--
Steve Philp
Network Administrator
Advance Packaging Corporation
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
