Just checking back to see how Joe made out today. I have been away from a computer all day, imagine that!
Please do give an update, and also thaks to everyone else who has helped with this issue..
Mike
---- "Eric \"Shubes\"" <
plug@shubes.net> wrote:
> joe wrote:
> > .
> > One more thing in response to this suggestion:
> >
> >> > Try removing hdb and try to boot. hda5 is the active partition,
> >> > or at least it was. It should boot from there even though
> >> > it is not labeled.
> >> >
> >> > Does the BIOS recognize the drive size correctly upon boot?
> >
> >> Yes, it did recognize both drive sizes correctly in the bios
> >> before Eric disabled drive hdb in the bios (I think that is
> >> what was done.)
>
> I hope I've clarified this in my previous post.
>
> > I thought that the point of disabling hdb in bios
> > (as I believe was done yesterday) was to achieve the
> > suggest, above, to "try removing hdb ..."
>
> Yes, that was the point. However, disabling the drive in the bios
> doesn't always have the same effect as disconnecting the drive.
>
> > But if I'm remembering what happened correctly (and I may not be),
> > the result was that both drives seemed to "disappear" ...
>
> hdb disappeared (from the bios, not from knoppix) when we specified
> "none" in the bios setup. hda never appeared in the summary, even with
> "auto" setup.
>
> > Now, I tend to think that this whole ordeal could be and perhaps
> > should be titled: "The great LILO boot-loader disappearance mystery."
>
> Not only LILO, but the whole hda.
> Thankfully, Linux sees the drive and partitions when the BIOS doesn't!
>
> --
> -Eric 'shubes'
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