On Sun, 02 Apr 2000 17:23:00 -0700, you wrote:

Aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!  (The programmers anthem!!)  that
explains ALL !!

In my case #3 is the probable culprit - I have WIN95 installed on the
first partition, with STN as the second and Boot Manager last.

I'll give it a try tonight !!  Thank goodness for "Partition Magic" !!

>> Hi people!
>> 
>> Here is something for those of us who are trying HD installs of this 
>> beastie - and may not be enjoying the success we feel we deserve!
>> 
>> The only hard disk supported is "hda1".
>> 
>> Translation:
>> 
>> 1.  It -MUST- be an IDE/EIDE drive.  "hd"
>> 2.  It -MUST- be the first drive in the chain, (i.e. "master" on 
>> "primary" channel.)  "hda"
>> 3.  It -MUST- be located within the -FIRST- partition on this drive. 
>> "hda1"
>> 
>> If you try to place it on any other drive type (such as SCSI), or on 
>> anything other than the first partition of the primary drive on the 
>> primary controller - yer hozed!  (actually, it boots the kernel, but 
>> bombs because it cannot find the ENVI file.)
>> 
>> Jim

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