things started to look

[Peter Martin]

The 'other' was already there. I'm less concerned about lilo and linux at this
point. Most of my data files are on that dos part (primary ide 1). I wasn't
albe to reboot from my dos startup floppy. Real strange. Linux boots just
fine.

I'm going to disconnect the dos and reconnect linux as prime ide 1 and reload
win98. Then I'll make another startup disk and give that a try for recovery of
the main one.


Rod Roark wrote:

> On Tue, 01 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> Sounds like a compatibility issue with the video card.  Try a Deja News
> search in comp.os.linux.hardware to see if anyone there has solved the
> problem.
>

I'll check that, thank you.


> > master, cdrom slave on IDE1 and the lone 13GB as 2nd IDE master for
> > linux).
> >
> > So now linux boots! (except for the cursor problem).  Using Lilo I then
> > wanted to get back to DOS to all my data and DOS programs. NOPE!
> > Wouldn't boot to DOS (win98). Trying to use fdisk from linux
> >     fdisk /mbr   -- unable to open mbr
> >     fdisk /dev/hds /mbr  -- gives me a bit of a help list
>
> /mbr is an option for DOS fdisk, not Linux.  But you don't want to do
> that anyway 'cause it will wipe out LILO.  Instead, add this to your
> lilo.conf:
>
>   other=/dev/hda1
>      label=dos
>      table=/dev/hda
>
> then rerun lilo, reboot and type "dos" at the prompt.