Re: [newbie] Lilo got sick

2003-01-26 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 08:46, Russ wrote: > HI Stephen, > > You may be onto something here. This is what I did; > > On my original try with Linux this go around I just disconnected my old HD > and partitioned a new one, Installed Win98 on the first half and Linux on > the second. Then I decided to

Re: [newbie] Lilo got sick

2003-01-26 Thread Russ
HI Stephen, You may be onto something here. This is what I did; On my original try with Linux this go around I just disconnected my old HD and partitioned a new one, Installed Win98 on the first half and Linux on the second. Then I decided to slave them together. So I simply uninstalled Lilo. Now

Re: [newbie] Lilo got sick

2003-01-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 26 Jan 2003 9:08 pm, you wrote: > > Except that PM tells me I have a problem with my partitions, and doesn't > > go any further. > > > > Anne > > Here's the trick with PM - You HAVE to have some type of partition it > can write to - be it a diskette or be it an actual FAT/VFAT partition.

Re: [newbie] Lilo got sick

2003-01-26 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 06:29, Steve Jeppesen wrote: > Not to correct you Stephen, but isn't it something like fdisk -mbr or > something? Hate to see somebody run fdisk without that mbr option and > ruin their current setup.. > > OTH > Steve Generally, when you run FDISK, you are presented with op

Re: [newbie] Lilo got sick

2003-01-26 Thread Steve Jeppesen
Not to correct you Stephen, but isn't it something like fdisk -mbr or something? Hate to see somebody run fdisk without that mbr option and ruin their current setup.. OTH Steve On 27 Jan 2003 05:55:24 +1100 Stephen Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 03:15, Russ wrote: > >

Re: [newbie] Lilo got sick

2003-01-26 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 03:15, Russ wrote: > Hi All, > > Shut down my computer last night and everything was just fine. Booted this > morning and got an "L" followed by rows of " 01". I did make a boot disk but > that was before I redid my system and now Linux is on the second disk, so > obviously t