Re: trouble with the boot-block..

[Gary Kline <kline@tera.tera.com>]

According to Jean Pierre LeJacq:
> On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Gary Kline wrote:
> 
> > However, after installing Debian on my first and third SCSI
> > drives and *not* using LILO as the boot manager, I found that
> > I __always__ boot into Debian, into a RAM file system.  
> > 
> > After re-installing both OS's from scratch several times I've
> > come to the conclusion that something is causing the master boot
> > track to always throw me into the re-install RAM-fs of Linux.
> > 
> > I'd be much obliged for some work-arounds here.  Am I using
> > the wrong rescue disk or what?
> 
> Are you booting from the rescue floppy disk.  If yes, then indeed you
> will be using the RAM-fs.  You can either use the boot floppy disk or
> LILO installed on the hard disk.
> 

	Both the hard drive and the  rescue floppy throw me 
	into the RAM-fs.  (In fact, trying to re-install FreeBSD
	from its floppy disk is impossible.)  

	I'd like BSD on my second SCSI; Debian on my first and
	third, but....  (??)

	gary




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