Thanks for the help ! I'll give this a try. When I boot I get 1F0 in the upper left part of the screen. I think this is also the address of the CDROM drive. Probably coincidence.
paul > -----Original Message----- > From: Patrick Olson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 03, 1999 6:02 PM > To: Paul McHale > Cc: debian-user > Subject: boot from hd (was RE: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?) > > > > > 2. Said it would make my HD bootable, didn't. I still boot > from floppies so > > if anyone can tell me where to look to change this... It's not > bad because > > I almost never have to reboot :) > > What does it do when you try to boot from the HD? > > You might take a look at the LILO mini-HOWTO at > http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/LILO.html > > I've heard that some systems do not like lilo, so this may not work out. > lilo has worked on every system I've tried it on though. > > If you have questions, feel free to ask. I'm sure either myself or > someone else on this list will be happy to help. > > Hope this helps, > Patrick > >