Going to answer my own question on this one...no guts no glory, right? Changed the 0x81 to 0x80 and rebooted, life was good again.
s.W On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 01:32, s. Wizard wrote: > Hi all, > I have a dual-boot box which, after some messing with, I fear I've > broken. I'm successfully booting right now, but that means manual > interference, otherwise, I get a quick boot-up welcome of 99 99 99 99 99 > 99 99 99 99 printed across my screen and a locked workstation. Anyway, > what I'm trying to do is be my workstation to stop trying to boot from > hde and start from hdf, which is the first drive in my BIOS boot-up. > I've googled around a bit, and haven't found anything that'll help me, > particularly with this line. > <snip> > disk=/dev/hdf bios=0x81 > </snip> > ...I understand the disk=/dev/hdf but what is the bios=0x81? What do I > change that to so I don't have to manually stop my system's boot-up, > pick which disk I want to boot from, and then let it go from there? > > Thanks in advance, I don't know what you'll need to answer my > question...so I hope I can provide what you request.... > > Thanks, > > s.Wizard > > > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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