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Re: OT: Hardware upgrades



Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy <jeld@mindless.com> writes:

> I have just upgraded my box ( unstable about 3-4 months berhind on the 
> updates ).  The upgrade was from PII 233 BX chipset motherboard to Athlon 
> 1800+ XP VIA KT266A motherboard. The problem seems to be the following:
> 
> 1. I cannot boot off the hard drive. It will see all the partitions and 
> system will work fine once booted from floppy/CDROM. It will install and 
> reinstall LILO without any problems. But every time I try to boot off of HD I 
> get there is not boot device insert bootable disk and press enter or 
> something. If anyone has any suggestions I would truly appreciate.

There was just something similar to this on another list I am on.  The
gentleman had his lilo.conf boot=/dev/hde5 and it should have been
/dev/hde, which another person said points to the MBR.



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