On 1/11/99 6:31 PM, Gevaerts Frank at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>>
>> 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
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>probably b).
>Try booting from a DOS boot disk and type
>sys c:
>This may fix it.
I will try this, but won't DOS take C: to be the first drive on the first
controller? That's where my linux system is now. Will sys C: cause DOS
to try to make the first drive into a DOS drive, thus overwriting my MBR
(or doing some other ugliness)?
>
>Frank
>
T. Sean (Theo) Schulze
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Hope is not a course of action. (But prayer is a combat multiplier.)
