On Friday 26 April 2002 16:54, you wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Paul Stear wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I have updated 8.1 to 8.2 and all seemed to go well except when I
> > rebooted after update and selected linux from the menu I was left with an
> > 'S' on the screen, the hard disk activity light a c
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Paul Stear wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have updated 8.1 to 8.2 and all seemed to go well except when I rebooted
> after update and selected linux from the menu I was left with an 'S' on the
> screen, the hard disk activity light a constant red and no response. I tried
> various
Hi all,
I have updated 8.1 to 8.2 and all seemed to go well except when I rebooted
after update and selected linux from the menu I was left with an 'S' on the
screen, the hard disk activity light a constant red and no response. I tried
various things like nodevfs and just text lilo.
I then ins
I have just installed Mandrake on my machine
(an HP Vectra XU). I have both an IDE and SCSI
hard drive, and put Mandrake in /dev/sda7. I
have had several other Linux distributions,
and never had a problem booting.
I have LILO in /dev/hda, and have put
I made a boot floppy and can boot from it
wi
I've got two hard drives in my computer -- an 850 meg IDE and a 10.5 GB
(some reason it only shows up as 8.5 GB) SCSI drive. I'm booting off my IDE
drive, but for some reason the system will NOT boot unless I have the boot
disk in the floppy drive (the one I made at install.)
The symptoms are this
