Re: [newbie] 7.1 will not load on new disk

2000-10-25 Thread L. H. LOO
James, This is what I went thru' : My Linux-Mandrake 7.1 is given by Maximum Linux Aug/Sept 2000; before install, I set cmos/bios of my computer to auto detect IDE primary master and primary slave only; boot computer to dos with cdrom support from Win95 boot disk. My cdrom was detected as C:\ ;

[newbie] 7.1 will not load on new disk

2000-10-25 Thread James Murray
Hello All:   I bought a new disk drive to use only for linux. I put in the boot disk and cd and got the window that says use f1 for help or return to install program. I then get a message on the screen that says boot failed. I tried f1 and tried the options there and still get a boot failed