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Re: can debian be booted with systen commander from a second HD?



SPEROLEEM@aol.com writes:

> In a message dated 11/27/00 4:16:46 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> SPEROLEEM@aol.com writes:
> 
>           I have a dell 933 MHZ , 128 Mb Rdram unit with two hard drives. one is loaded with win 98,
>      one is to be  dedicated to GNU/lLnux. Both are 45 GB drives.  Using win98 the drive letters are
>      C and D.  System commander is installed.  A 1 Gb root and 128 Mb swap partitions were made on
>      the D drive.     
>      Bought GNU 2.2. placed in CDROM  and seemed to install OK. Got to the boot prompt and came to a
>      dead end.     
>      Rebooting shows the SC window with linux indicated but does not boot to linux, jgive a message
>      "possible defective boot record, normal boot signature missing".     
>      If I use the debian CDROM I get to the boot prompt. win98 boots OK.     

No idea.  This is purely a lilo issue.  I would suggest looking
through the lilo documentation and such.

-- 
.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>



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