I ran into that today. I just installed a new computer: Gigabyte
7IXE, AMD Athlon 750. One HDD on IDE 0 as Master, other on IDE 1 as
Master. I told the BIOS to boot from IDE 1 when no boot floppy
present. Stuck in the LM Installation floppy and instaleed LM on IDE 1
(hdc1 in LM). At end of install, told LM to install the boot loader in
the MBR, thinking it would put it in HDE 1. Well, it didn't. It put it
in IDE 0! Merde. So tried to boot from IDE 1, stuck on "stage 1."
More merde. Cranked LM up from IDE O tried to reconfigure LILO to boot
from hdc1. Nope, sticks on stage 1. Grrr... So I can boot from the
floppy or the Windoze disk. Nuts.
I'm going to try cabling up the target HDD as IDE 0, install Linux and
then recable to IDE 1, then tell the BIOS to boot from IDE 1. May screw
up the hdd link in LM though. If it doesn't work, I'll RTFMs some more;
see how the other option in the bootloader question works.
CR
