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
> 
> 
> 
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