im a idiot, i figured it out, i have no idea why i was trying to boot from
hd and not the CDROM. hehe
markOpoleO
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 4:18 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] 2nd hardrive follow up
> Do you have the Bios set to read CDROM, C, SCSI? It sounds like you are
> still booting from the main Hard drive. If you don't know how to get in
> bios just hold down the delete key when the computer is first booting up
> like when it is reading ram, primary master, secondary master etc. Some
> motherboards want you to hold down a different key so instead of delete
> hit the Pause key on your keyboard and look at the bottom of the screen.
> It should tell you down there somewhere to hit "somekey" to enter setup.
> Once in bios the configuration for boot up is in the "Bios features
> setup". You will see a selection "boot sequence" arrow down to that and
> hit the keyboard Plus key (the one next to the Number pad group) and
> change the setting to CDROM etc as shown at the begining of this post.
> Once you have changed hit esc key and then F10, Y for yes and "enter"
> key, the computer will start booting and you should have the CD in.
> This should start you into the installation program and your off and
> running. Sorry if I have included more info here than you needed but I
> couldn't tell from your post if you knew all of the above. Luck, Dennis
>
>
> markOpoleO wrote:
> >
> > Ok i got a second hardrive for linux, had 7.0 installed on it but some
> > reason is said Kernel was corrupt, so i get 7.1 in mail and when i try
to
> > boot up from CD it just goes to LILO and not the CD, how the heck do I
> > format my linux drive so i can do fresh install on 7.1?
> >
> > markOpoleO
>
> --
> Dennis M. a registered Linux User #180842
>
