Re: LILO troubles

To: David Wright <d.wright@open.ac.uk>
Cc: Jason Schepman <jschepma@midsouth.rr.com>, debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: LILO troubles
From: virtanen <hvirtane@cc.jyu.fi>
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 15:26:05 +0300 (EET DST)
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In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20000728130545.C13767@tyne.open.ac.uk>

On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, David Wright wrote:

> Quoting Jason Schepman (jschepma@midsouth.rr.com):
> > Yes.  I'm able to boot from floppies.  I just can't boot from the hardrive.
> > "Boot"=hda.  "Root"=hdb2(location of my / filesystem).  
>                         ^
> It looks as if the BIOS doesn't know how to boot from the second drive.
> 
> Cheers,

I'm probably having exactly the same problem. One funny thing is that
Corel 1.1 (I had that here for some time) seemed to know how to boot from
the second disk... so it isn't only because of BIOS. 

hvirtane

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