Re: Antw: HELP! GRUB wiped out my first hard drive's partition table!

2000-10-31 Thread Harmon S. Nine
Just one more thing ... Is it at all possible to use a stage1_5 along with EZ-bios? TIA -- Harmon ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub

Re: Antw: HELP! GRUB wiped out my first hard drive's partition table!

2000-10-31 Thread Harmon S. Nine
I'll try this out. Thank you very much. :) -- Harmon On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Jochen Hoenicke wrote: > On Oct 30, Harmon S. Nine wrote: > > Nothing seems to help. I do have an old machine. Would an old or buggy > > BIOS be at fault? Actually, now that I think of it, I installed a large > > har

Re: Antw: HELP! GRUB wiped out my first hard drive's partition table!

2000-10-31 Thread Jochen Hoenicke
On Oct 30, Harmon S. Nine wrote: > Nothing seems to help. I do have an old machine. Would an old or buggy > BIOS be at fault? Actually, now that I think of it, I installed a large > hard drive on this machine some time ago, and installed an EZ-bios along > with it so that win95 could see the wh

Re: Antw: HELP! GRUB wiped out my first hard drive's partition table!

2000-10-30 Thread Harmon S. Nine
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Volker Augustin wrote: > Did you install lilo to the MBR or the boot partition? You should install to the MBR. > Volker > > Yes. My lilo.conf looks like boot=/dev/hda etc. etc. Nothing seems to help. I do have an old machine. Would an old or buggy BIOS be at fault?

Re: HELP! GRUB wiped out my first hard drive's partition table!

2000-10-30 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Harmon S. Nine wrote: > I used the original grub floppy to reboot into linux and (sob!) reinstall > lilo. Lilo didn't fix it. On boot, my computer still prints the work > "GRUB" and hangs. I now can only boot from my grub floppy. use your windows boot disk and type fdisk

HELP! GRUB wiped out my first hard drive's partition table!

2000-10-30 Thread Harmon S. Nine
Hello. Grub is working wonderfully at my workplace, but when I installed it on the hard drive of one of my older machines at home, something very bad happened. Firstly, I used the standard installation procedure: I made a grub floppy, booted from it, and entered the commands: root (hd2,0) # li