Kathleen....I'm suspicious of something here. If your primary
drive needs to be disabled to allow Linux to boot then I suspect
that you probably installed Linux with the primary drive
disabled as well, right? If that's so, then it'll probably be
easier to reinstall Linux under normal conditions than to try
and fix it to boot under normal conditions as it exists now.
Alan
The Russells wrote:
>
> First, a little background. I am a native Mac user (what is a BIOS anyway?!
> command prompt?!) who intended to install LinuxPPC about this time last
> year. I never got around to it. About three weeks ago I bought a PC and
> decided to make some use of it by getting a second hard drive and installing
> Mandrake on it. Call me crazy, but the idea of partitioning something I use
> every day scares me. I have heard too many stories about partitons breaking
> down, I suppose.
>
> After much gnashing of teeth and general hassle, I got the thing mounted
> (damn these cheap micro ATX cases!) and just finally got Mandrake installed,
> after trying four times. It is a 10GB Western Digital, if that matters. My
> Windows 98 hard drive is primary master. My Mandrake hard drive is primary
> slave. I have nothing for a secondary master. My CD-ROM is the secondary
> slave.
>
> First problem: LILO. Right now, I have to disable the primary hard drive
> in BIOS to boot my Linux drive. When I boot the Linux drive, LILO asks me
> if I want to boot to Linux or my floppy drive. I'd love to be able to make
> a choice between Windows and Linux as everything boots up. I attempted to
> reconfigure LILO, at the command prompt, but obviously I am not getting
> something. I have the feeling that I need to somehow configure LILO on my
> Windows hard drive, since that is my primary master and what boots first.
> Any ideas/suggestions?
>
> Second, I thought my modem was configured properly during the Mandrake
> install. Whenever I try to use it in Linux, it says the modem is busy.
> It's definitely not. I bought the confounded modem expressly because I was
> under the impression that it was supported by Linux. It is a Rockwell ACF
> II 56k data fax modem, on COM port 2 (in windows language). Today I read
> something somewhere that suggested Rockwells aren't usually supported by
> Linux. Was I misled? Can anyone point me in the direction of a Linux-modem
> webpage?
>
> Sheesh. I realize I sound like a babe in the woods here. Bear with me.
> Thank goodness this list is labeled "newbie"!
>
> Thanks,
> Kathleen
