Re: Boot disk quit working after second install

2000-04-29 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
A common cause of this problem is that the floppy drive may be of the newer ATAPI type common to newer laptops especially, as constrasted to the older /dev/fd0 floppy type. The install kernels come with ide-floppy support needed for ATAPI compiled in, but the kernel installed has ide-floppy

Re: Boot disk quit working after second install

2000-04-01 Thread Erik Ryberg
Lehel Bernadt wrote: On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Erik Ryberg wrote: Hello, I have a 6 gig hard drive with debian on the first 4 gigs. I installed an old SUSE last night on the last 2 gigs in order to try out MySQL which allegedly came with that distribution. I boot debian with a

Re: Boot disk quit working after second install

2000-04-01 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On Sat, 01 Apr 2000, Erik Ryberg wrote: Lehel Bernadt wrote: What kind of boot disk do you have : ext2+lilo, fat+syslinux, loadlin or just the raw kernel ? What is its configuration ? I understand that you use the same disk for debian suse. How did you altered the config to boot

Boot disk quit working after second install

2000-03-31 Thread Erik Ryberg
Hello, I have a 6 gig hard drive with debian on the first 4 gigs. I installed an old SUSE last night on the last 2 gigs in order to try out MySQL which allegedly came with that distribution. I boot debian with a boot disk as I have, sigh, Windows on another drive and I had a scary experience

Re: Boot disk quit working after second install

2000-03-31 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Erik Ryberg wrote: Hello, I have a 6 gig hard drive with debian on the first 4 gigs. I installed an old SUSE last night on the last 2 gigs in order to try out MySQL which allegedly came with that distribution. I boot debian with a boot disk as I have, sigh,