On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 08:46, Russ wrote: > HI Stephen, > > You may be onto something here. This is what I did; > > On my original try with Linux this go around I just disconnected my old HD > and partitioned a new one, Installed Win98 on the first half and Linux on > the second. Then I decided to slave them together. So I simply uninstalled > Lilo. Now when booted to that HD it boots directly to my new Win98 install. > I then slaved the two together. Both HD's (Maxtors) are set to CS. My old HD > is in the master position and my new one is on the slave. I reinstalled > Linux on the second HD (same partition only now it was a slave disk instead > of master). Now Lilo was installed on my OLD HD and it set itself to boot to > all three OS's (old Win98 on old HD - New Win98 on first partition new HD - > and Linux on second HD). I did it this way just to see if Win98 would boot > on a slaved drive. I had heard that it would not. Therefore both HD's were > bootable. > > Now, would that have caused the problem I had? I shut the computer down and > started it again today and it did it again so I just erased Lilo (through > the CD again) >
Yeppers - shore would have caused it. Are you done switching disks around now? (g) -- Mon, 27 Jan 2003 09:35:01 +1100 9:35am up 10 days, 19:18, 6 users, load average: 0.28, 0.23, 0.19 ------------------------------------------------------------------ | __ __ | kuhn media australia | | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 | | ;"""/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | ------------------------------------------------------------------ linux user:267497 * RH 8.0 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting ------------------------------------------------------------------ We only support a 28000 bps connection.
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