Hi, I've been following this thread with interest. I just upped to LM10. It almost seemed too easy. I use it on a Dell laptop (inspiron). I don't remember if there was an option to write the bootloader to different locations like in 9.2, 9.1 etc but I was wondering if the bootloader has to be on the MBR for the bios to pick it up. Just a thought.
Good luck with it. Regards, Bill W. On Sunday 21 March 2004 13:17, Marc wrote: > On Saturday 20 March 2004 10:31 pm, Aron Smith wrote: > > On Saturday 20 March 2004 03:27 pm, bascule wrote: > > > it would be interesting to know the results of putting the gateway hard > > > drive in a 'normal' machine and putting a 'normal' hard drive in the > > > gateway machine > > > > Two screwed-up Machines? > > The Gateway HDD works great in a normal machine. In fact to clear > matters up a bit ether of the 2 hard drives suppled by gateway will work > fine in the gateway machine. I can do a standard ML installation with NO > problems at all what so ever. But after the installation when the machine > starts to reboot it hangs at the Gateway splash screen where it says to hit > F2 to enter setup. It does not even go to the LILO boot loader screen. At > that point F2 will not work and the machine will not proceed with booting > up. if I power down and attempt to reboot again I can access the BIOS by > hitting F1 instead of F2. F1 will take me to an other screen where I can > then get to the BIOS settings. When I do get to the BIOS settings and do > some checking I find that the hard drive is undetected. It detects NO > primary master NO primary slave, It does detect the CD drive as a secondary > master. If I remove the HDD and put it in an other machine the other > machine will boot into Linux with no problems at all. If I then Reformat > the drive using Maxblast and a win 98 floppy then reinstall the HDD in the > Gateway machine the gateway machine will be able to detect it correctly and > load windoze back on it and run just fine, but if ML is loaded after the > installation when I go to reboot it is the same old thing the Gateway > machine is no longer able to detect the HDD. > I would still assume that the BIOS in any machine would detect A drive > from information stored on the PC board of the drive and not from > information stored on the disk. Am I wrong about this? The behavior of this > machine seems abnormal at best and possibly a deliberate attempt to prevent > the > installation of any non microshaft operating system. > I am going to try to contact tech support at Intel, the folks that made > this board for gateway and get some further details. > > Marc
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