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

[SPEROLEEM@aol.com]

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. 
>
> sm