021128 Ron Stodden wrote: > Reminder. No response to the below serious situation: >> I have successfully installed 9.0 on three machines. Two are all OK. >> On the third, Linux runs, as initiated by XOSL or by its floppy, >> but always after exit the active flag on the C drive >> (which contains XOSL) is clobbered, leaving an unbootable machine >> which needs an MSDOS FDISK run from the Windows startup floppy to fix it. >> This machine is Pentium 2, 300MHz, 64MB, 20GHB hard disk >> and runs Windows 98 faultlessly. >> I have installed two 9.0s, expert, all selected except servers, LILO, >> in different partitions on this machine and both have this problem. >> Why would anything in runtime Linux ever have reason >> to look at the active flag in the MBR on C:? Let alone change it?
since no-one else has responded, maybe a further question: why don't you simply use Lilo to start Linux (you mention XOSL)? ie at boot, Lilo offers you the usual screen of choices & you choose one. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto
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