Re: Help installing Debian 2.2r3 (formerly 2.2r17 - brain misfire )
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 05:20:57PM -0600, LaGuardia, Kristofer S. wrote:
> I would do that, but there is one main problem that i can't remember if i
> mentioned way back in the beginning...I have my three hard drives on a
> Promise UDMA66 card...and my DVD and CD burner are on the motherboard.
> So...maybe that's the problem my BIOS is having. It could be conflicting
> with my Promise card's BIOS and not knowing which drive to boot up, so the
> BIOS overrides anything else. I might be stuck with trying GRUB...but not
> much is going on there either...I made a GRUB boot disk...and when it boots,
> it doesn't give me a menu or anything...just says "GRUB >". I'll get Linux
> on this machine one way or another. Just don't know the best way to go
> about doing it. I have a backup of Win2000, and the rest of the drive, so
> that isn't a problem(not that I know of). Anyone out there have a Promise
> card, and had Windows2000 installed first, then tried to install Debian? If
> you did, please let me know how the heck you got it installed. The help
> would be GREATLY appreciated!!! :)) I'm not giving up...
A few years ago, when I was first learning linux, there was a rule that
a pc operating system MUST boot off one of the first 2 IDE drives. I
believe that wasn't a LILO thing so much as in IA (Intel Architecture)
thing. Of course at that time, we had a 512 Mb booting rule too . . .
Maybe the above doesn't apply any more, but it might.
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Thank you,
Joe Bouchard
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