On 6/24/05, Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Haan wrote: > > On 6/24/05, Ted Ozolins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Colin wrote: > >> > >> > >>> > >>>A more obscure BIOS tactic common back in the day was to put all or > >>>part of it in a hidden area on the primary master hard drive. This > >>>might be your issue, except I think this was only Compaq 486/Pentium > >>>systems. Name-brand computers always have some proprietary "feature" > >>>to keep us power users away (like warranties, or older Dells' > >>>nonstandard power supplies). > >>>-- > >>>Colin > >>> > >> > >>When you ran fdisk and created all your partitions, did you flag one of > >>them as bootable? > >> > >>-- > >>Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) > >>Westbank, B. C > >> > >>-- > >>gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > >> > >> > > > > > > I did what I always do: > > > > /dev/hda1 /boot ext3 > > /dev/hda2 swap > > /dev/hda3 / reiser > > > > and I don't recall ever flagging anything as bootable (other than > > installing grub) to the MBR. Where do you flag partitions as bootable > > in fdisk? > > > > Yes, fdisk can toggle the boot flag on a partition. It's not very logical > for the bios to look at the partition table though. It really only needs to > be interested in the boot loader part of the mbr. > > Zac > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > >
And the winner is..... Holly!!! Removing the jumper for master made both my primary HD and CD show-up correctly. I also updated the BIOS, so that may have helped as well. Now, I seem to be missing device files...... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
