>
> After all this, I rebooted and gave LILO the command to boot 'dos'.
> 'dos' refused to boot, and the computer claimed that it had been given a
> non-system disk ("change disks and hit any key...yadda yadda") (I know
> that it was at one time bootable because I booted DOS and played around
> with WfW for a while before switching the drives back.) Is this refusal
> to boot due to:
>
> a) My having mounted the drive as vfat or my having used ls to list the
> contents of the drive? (I do realize that in the example Richard gave
> above, he used 'ls > /dev/fd0' which would write to the drive, rather
> than what I did 'ls -alF /dev/hdb' which read *from* the drive.)
>
> b) My having moved the DOS drive to the second position, thereby
> confusing the drive's MBR?
>
> c) Some other possibility I haven't thought of?
>
> Cheers,
> Sean
probably b).
Try booting from a DOS boot disk and type
sys c:
This may fix it.
Frank
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>
> T. Sean (Theo) Schulze
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