Thanks Bill.
I meant that the original HDD (the one with Linux installed) is electrically
and physically disconected and located on the other side of the room (i.e.
FAR!).
When he tried a DOS/MS-Win boot floppy, it worked as you suggest (no more
messages from Linux).
But when the floppy was removed and the system reset: Lilo says hello!
Thats why we wondered if it was in the BIOS prom...
Bruce.
-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Freeman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 2:00 PM
To: Bourdon, Bruce
Subject: Hardware is Linux aware?
I assume that he means that it runs LILO. You mention that
"the linux hard drive" isn't connected. This makes me wonder if there
was more than one hard drive, and linux was installed on other than
the first drive. The boot record is always read from the first drive
(typically drive C: in DOS/Windows parlance). So, no matter where
linux gets installed we usually put lilo in the boot block of the
first drive. If that's the problem then the fix is to boot from a DOS
floppy containing FDISK and to run FDISK/MBR. Of course, then, you'll
never get linux back, but if it isn't desired then that's the way to
go.
Of course there may easily be some other reason that I don't
know about, so if something else turns out to be true, please post to
the group.
Bill
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