On Wed, 10 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> It appears to start booting from the floppy, then switches to the
> SCSI. The same thing happens no matter whether I designate CD,
> floppy or SCSI as first choice for boot.
> I have tried to reinstall, and the same thing happens. I had the
> internal SCSI set as #0 and the external as #3, and the terminator
> was in place.
> Since the external wasn't recognized by w2k on my two other
> systems, I have returned it to IBM. I paid FedEx around $15 to send
> it the first time, and the USPO $3.95 this time (with tracking
> number)! It really hurt two weeks ago, as I had to return one to
> Seagate at the same time.
> I have two Linux boot discs, one generic from before I installed,
> and one custom from after installation. I also have a drivers disc,
> but it doesn't want that one now.
> It seems to me that if I disabled LILO in such a way that it
> would go only to w2k, I could then reinstall Linux, but I don't know
> how to do this.
>
Have you tried booting from the generic boot disk? With that disk, and
the CD, you should be able to boot. Or you can create a new boot disk
by booting to W2K, and creating one from the install CD. I am not sure
why the system does not want to boot from the CD. Having lilo installed
on the first hard drive should not affect that, as that is the BIOS,
before you actualy access the CD. The only time I have seen a problem
with this was with a SCSI controller BIOS that took over the boot setup,
and would boot from the hard drive, or the floppy, but would ignore the
BIOS settings.
Now, if you want to remove lilo from the hard drive, you can do this by
booting from a DOS boot disk, and running "fdisk /mbr". This will
replace the lilo loader with the stock Windows boot loader.
Mikkel
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for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
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