According to T. Sean: While burning my CPU.
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> Since MSDOS wants to install itself on the first drive it finds, in this
> case my linux system, I disconnected the drive with linux on it and
> connected the other drive as the only hard drive on the system. I then
> installed MSDOS and WfW, and moved the drive back to its position as the
> second drive on the first IIDE controller. The linux drive went back on
> as the first drive on the first IDE controller. I adjusted
> /etc/lilo.conf to include an option to boot dos. Just for grins, I
> mounted the DOS/WfW drive on a directory, /dos, using the command 'mount
> -t vfat /dev/hdb /dos' and then did the command 'ls -alF /dos'. This
> last command showed me the contents of the DOS/WfW drive (as it should).
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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:
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> 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.)
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> 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?
It cant realy be a), i have used ls -alF many times on dos partitions
without problems, the -F only writes extra chars to stdout and not to the
drive.
b) sounds a more likely explanation, you could try booting from a dos
bootdisk, and type sys c:/ or d:/ whatever is relavant.
Or could it be that LILO is trying to boot the wrong partition, i mean its
looking on a partition with dos on it but cannot find io.sys on that
partition.
You say above i edited /etc/lilo.conf to reflect to "dos" but did you
"rerun" LILO.?????
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> Cheers,
> Sean
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>
> T. Sean (Theo) Schulze
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> There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases
> to be a virtue. -- Edmund Burke
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Regards Richard.
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Happy New Year, and may all your troubles be small (ones).
