On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 09:57, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > 2) If you are running from a windows 95/98 startup disk, you have to run > 'lock' to allow low-level access to the hard drive. If you do not do > this, syslinux will be unable to install the boot loader on the hard > disk, and you will be unable to boot. You can skip this step if you are > running a 'real' version of dos instead of a windows startup disk.
I knew that was the case when running windows (perhaps also the reason why the win98 fdisk that I copied on to a win98 boot floppy refused to /MBR the hdd), but the original problem was why the linux version of syslinux when installed on the hdd wouldn't boot it... I don't run windows anymore (switched my desktop to Redhat, Gnome and evolution about a year ago) so breaking my Windowsless streak sucked ;) Z ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Jabber - The world's fastest growing real-time communications platform! Don't just IM. Build it in! http://www.jabber.com/osdn/xim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
