Re: Question on install

[Alexander Koch <efraim@desire.camelot.de>]

Quoting Paul Wade (paulwade@greenbush.com):
[...]
> > My problem is that I take the resc1440.bin and write it to disc (with dd)
> > and when it comes to boot it just does nothing and the mbr of /dev/sda
> > (lilo) is taken.
> 
> Is the floppy drive trying to read at boot? Make sure your system bios is
> set up for proper boot order A:,C: and not C:,A:
> 
> If that doesn't solve it, see if your system will boot anything from a
> floppy (like dos).

There IS the correct boot order in the BIOS, the disks is read for a short
time and then it goes over to the harddiscs.

And, yes, an old M$ DOS disks boots the system properly.

*sigh* I'm gonna try out Rawrite...

Thanks for your help and suggestions.

Alexander

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