Re: Boot mystery

2000-03-30 Thread Charlie Kroeger
Joe Bouchard ask for clarification: Hi, >Please spell it out for us (the telepathy is weak): >/dev/hdc1 = what? how big? > hdc2 = > hdc5 = > hdc6 = >Map it right out for us . . . That was the problem, there was no hdc1, only hdc3 (Ext2) hdc2 (LILO) and hdc5 (swap) OK... I went i

Re: Boot mystery

2000-03-28 Thread Joe Bouchard
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 01:21:57PM -0600, Charlie Kroeger wrote: > Hi, got a problem... > > I've installed Debian 2.1 i386 on my second hard drive in a file system and > a swap file I created with partition magic. > > I installed Debian by booting with a windows boot disk with a CD ROM driver >

Re: Boot mystery

2000-03-26 Thread Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong
Here's how my system is setup. Hopefully, it will help. I have Partition Magic's Boot Manager (actually, I think it's the OS/2 boot manager) on /dev/hda. My DR-DOS and Win95 partitions are marked a bootable on /dev/hda. Debian GNU/Linux is on /dev/hdb. The root partition is /dev/hdb1. During

Boot mystery

2000-03-26 Thread Charlie Kroeger
Hi, got a problem... I've installed Debian 2.1 i386 on my second hard drive in a file system and a swap file I created with partition magic. I installed Debian by booting with a windows boot disk with a CD ROM driver and then loaded Debian from the CD. Everything went well. The installation "f