Ok - the first thing you probably want to do is boot to linux, and run
"lilo -u" to restore the origional boot loader. Then edit /etc/lilo.conf
and change the line "boot=/dev/hda" to "boot=/dev/sda". Then add two
more lines after the boot= line in lilo.conf:
disk=/dev/sda
bios=0x80
Then run "lilo" to install the boot loader to the USB drive.
The boot= option controlls where the boot loader is installed. There is
an option during install on where to install the boot loader. For your
use, the best place is probably the boot record of the root partition.
You may not need the two added lines. I am not sure about this for
booting from a USB drive, but I have had to use it before when I have a
system that boots off a SCSI drive, and I also have an IDE drive. This
is because LILO can not detect the BIOS mapping of drives, so it
defaults to the IDE drive being the first BIOS hard drive. This works
for most people. But when you select to boot off the USB drive, I
suspect the BIOS maps it as the first drive.
Mikkel
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Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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Ok well what if the Linux version didn't work (i.e. the screen was all
messed up it had lines all over it and then it had 4 mice on the screen and
you couldn't read anything.)
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