Re: Boot disk quit working after second install

2000-04-29 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
A common cause of this problem is that the floppy drive may be of the newer ATAPI type common to newer laptops especially, as constrasted to the older /dev/fd0 floppy type. The install kernels come with ide-floppy support needed for ATAPI compiled in, but the kernel installed has ide-floppy servi

Re: Boot disk quit working after second install

2000-04-01 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On Sat, 01 Apr 2000, Erik Ryberg wrote: > Lehel Bernadt wrote: > > > > What kind of boot disk do you have : > > ext2+lilo, fat+syslinux, loadlin or just the raw kernel ? > > What is its configuration ? > > I understand that you use the same disk for debian & suse. How did you > > altered > > the c

Re: Boot disk quit working after second install

2000-04-01 Thread Erik Ryberg
Lehel Bernadt wrote: > On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Erik Ryberg wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have a 6 gig hard drive with debian on the first 4 gigs. I installed an > > old SUSE last > > night on the last 2 gigs in order to try out MySQL which allegedly came > > with that > > distribution. > > > > I bo

Re: Boot disk quit working after second install

2000-03-31 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Erik Ryberg wrote: > Hello, > > I have a 6 gig hard drive with debian on the first 4 gigs. I installed an > old SUSE last > night on the last 2 gigs in order to try out MySQL which allegedly came with > that > distribution. > > I boot debian with a boot disk as I have, sig

Boot disk quit working after second install

2000-03-31 Thread Erik Ryberg
Hello, I have a 6 gig hard drive with debian on the first 4 gigs. I installed an old SUSE last night on the last 2 gigs in order to try out MySQL which allegedly came with that distribution. I boot debian with a boot disk as I have, sigh, Windows on another drive and I had a scary experience