Re: [newbie] Back to the forgotten beginning ~ lilo

2005-02-10 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
SnapafunFrank wrote: *** I had this hdd drive only to start with and successfully got dual booting with it before consigning it to be slave when I went to update to Mandrake10. *** *** Now everything Mikkel writes here has finely woken me up to what needs to be done and I look forward to the

Re: [newbie] Back to the forgotten beginning ~ lilo

2005-02-09 Thread SnapafunFrank
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: SnapafunFrank wrote: Basically, I have two hdd's with the now slave having suffered my first attempts at Linux and of course, the last 9x going [ WinMe }. I can boot into WinMe without any hassles whatsoever but am unable to get lilo.conf right to boot into the old

Re: [newbie] Back to the forgotten beginning ~ lilo

2005-02-09 Thread Steve Jeppesen
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 00:24:04 +1300 SnapafunFrank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dumb question time - Is this lilo.conf you are working with on the second hard drive? Was the drive /dev/hdb when you installed Linux on it, or did you just have the drive with Linux on it in the machine when you

Re: [newbie] Back to the forgotten beginning ~ lilo

2005-02-09 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
SnapafunFrank wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: SnapafunFrank wrote: Basically, I have two hdd's with the now slave having suffered my first attempts at Linux and of course, the last 9x going [ WinMe }. I can boot into WinMe without any hassles whatsoever but am unable to get lilo.conf right to

Re: [newbie] Back to the forgotten beginning ~ lilo

2005-02-09 Thread SnapafunFrank
Steve Jeppesen wrote: On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 00:24:04 +1300 SnapafunFrank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mikkel Big SNIP to focus on problem- made by Frank #other=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part2 # label=linux90 # table=/dev/hdb # image=/boot/vmlinuz #

[newbie] Back to the forgotten beginning ~ lilo

2005-02-08 Thread SnapafunFrank
Basically, I have two hdd's with the now slave having suffered my first attempts at Linux and of course, the last 9x going [ WinMe }. I can boot into WinMe without any hassles whatsoever but am unable to get lilo.conf right to boot into the old linux9.1 OS I have also installed on that hdd.

Re: [newbie] Back to the forgotten beginning ~ lilo

2005-02-08 Thread Steve Jeppesen
On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 23:42:49 +1300 SnapafunFrank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Basically, I have two hdd's with the now slave having suffered my first attempts at Linux and of course, the last 9x going [ WinMe }. I can boot into WinMe without any hassles whatsoever but am unable to get

Re: [newbie] Back to the forgotten beginning ~ lilo

2005-02-08 Thread Steve Jeppesen
On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 23:42:49 +1300 SnapafunFrank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Basically, I have two hdd's with the now slave having suffered my first attempts at Linux and of course, the last 9x going [ WinMe }. I can boot into WinMe without any hassles whatsoever but am unable to get

Re: [newbie] Back to the forgotten beginning ~ lilo

2005-02-08 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
SnapafunFrank wrote: Basically, I have two hdd's with the now slave having suffered my first attempts at Linux and of course, the last 9x going [ WinMe }. I can boot into WinMe without any hassles whatsoever but am unable to get lilo.conf right to boot into the old linux9.1 OS I have also