In a message dated 4/24/00 11:58:14 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
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First problem: LILO. Right now, I have to disable the
primary hard drive
in BIOS to boot my Linux drive. When I boot the Linux
drive, LILO asks me
if I want to boot to Linux or my floppy drive.
KathleenI'm suspicious of something here. If your primary
drive needs to be disabled to allow Linux to boot then I suspect
that you probably installed Linux with the primary drive
disabled as well, right? If that's so, then it'll probably be
easier to reinstall Linux under normal conditions
Alan,
Doh! You are right! I did install Mandrake when there were no other drives
even hooked up--I was having a lot of trouble, and was beginning ot think it
was my ribbon cable, so I unhooked my Windows hard drive and attached that
connection to the Linux hard drive. Anyhoo, I will reinstall
Actually, if you were to run to separate drives, and the first drive had no dos
partitions on
it, Windows wouldn't even recognize it. It would still call the second drive 'C'
(because
non-dos partitions don't get a drive letter). At least that makes sense in my head,
well
that's another
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Subject: Re: [newbie] LILO and modem issues
KathleenI'm suspicious of something here. If your primary
drive needs to be disabled to allow Linux to boot then I suspect
that you probably installed Linux with the primary drive
disabled as well, right? If that's so, then it'll
Well in my way of thinking...the BIOS assigns Drive letters weather there is a
filesystem on it or not...changing the Windows C: installed drive to somewhere
else in the chain, will still produce the file not found errors because the
drive is now assigned Drive D or more, and the installed drive
On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, "The Russells" wrote:
. .
You don't have a bios on Apple computers? (No, seriously, you don't?)
Nope. I suppose the most similar thing to BIOS in a Mac would be the
extension manager, but it's certainly not the same thing.
In a way a person has less control
Kathleen,
If your Rockwell is a "Winmodem" it isn't supported by Linux. Basically,
any free standing modem is more likely to be safe than an internal modem.
If the modem was really inexpensive (e.g. $20-$30) it is probably a
WinModem and expects to use Win services to fill in for its own
I do have the Boot Magic provided on disk 3 of Mandrake 7. Maybe I will try
that first, and then just do an upgrade rather than a full install. Really,
what else is it for but to tinker around with. It's not like I have much
Stuff Of Importance on either hard drive yet, since the PC is a grand
I could be wrong, but I don't believe your bios cares what letter is on any given
drive. You
do however, need to tell it where your MBR resides. That's why you can boot from a
floppy
disk or a zip drive. It doesn't need to know which comes first (c,d,e,f,etc), it just
needs
the path from
a new distribution of
linux later? Or do I have to edit the BIOS?
-Paul
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Subject: Re: [Re: [Re: [newbie] LILO and modem issues]]
I could
The Russells wrote:
First, a little background. I am a native Mac user (what is a BIOS anyway?!
command prompt?!)
You don't have a bios on Apple computers? (No, seriously, you don't?)
First problem: LILO. Right now, I have to disable the primary hard drive
in BIOS to boot my Linux
First problem: LILO. Right now, I have to disable the primary hard drive
in BIOS to boot my Linux drive. When I boot the Linux drive, LILO asks me
if I want to boot to Linux or my floppy drive. I'd love to be able to make
a choice between Windows and Linux as everything boots up. I
The Russells wrote:
First, a little background. I am a native Mac user (what is a BIOS
anyway?!
command prompt?!)
and Michael responded:
You don't have a bios on Apple computers? (No, seriously, you don't?)
Nope. I suppose the most similar thing to BIOS in a Mac would be the
I'll have to keep you in mind; I'm planning to buy an iMac this summer and
I don't have a clue how to run one!
Have you tried the lilo fix yet? I'm curious to see if it works!
Mike
The Russells wrote:
The Russells wrote:
First, a little background. I am a native Mac user (what is a
Michael Holt wrote:
I'll have to keep you in mind; I'm planning to buy an iMac this summer and
I don't have a clue how to run one!
Have you tried the lilo fix yet? I'm curious to see if it works!
Mike
The Russells wrote:
The Russells wrote:
First, a little background. I am
Yup, I tried it. I ran "lilo" at the command prompt after I saved it and it
told me /dev/hdb is not a regular file.
Maybe this is a good excuse to get a whole new and different box?! Any
excuse, any at all...
An iMac, eh? Cool. Mine is grape and is quite neglected since this Linux
thing
How about switching your drives? If you make Linux /dev/hda and Windows
/dev/hdb (make Linux your primary master and put windows on your primary
slave). You shouldn't have to change too much, just the jumpers on your
Windows drive.
I would like to say that I have two drives. On the first
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