According to Jean Pierre LeJacq: > On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Gary Kline wrote: > > > However, after installing Debian on my first and third SCSI > > drives and *not* using LILO as the boot manager, I found that > > I __always__ boot into Debian, into a RAM file system. > > > > After re-installing both OS's from scratch several times I've > > come to the conclusion that something is causing the master boot > > track to always throw me into the re-install RAM-fs of Linux. > > > > I'd be much obliged for some work-arounds here. Am I using > > the wrong rescue disk or what? > > Are you booting from the rescue floppy disk. If yes, then indeed you > will be using the RAM-fs. You can either use the boot floppy disk or > LILO installed on the hard disk. >
Both the hard drive and the rescue floppy throw me into the RAM-fs. (In fact, trying to re-install FreeBSD from its floppy disk is impossible.) I'd like BSD on my second SCSI; Debian on my first and third, but.... (??) gary -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .