Boot problem

[joe]

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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 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 ..." 

But if I'm remembering what happened correctly (and I may not be), 
the result was that both drives seemed to "disappear" ... 

Now, I tend to think that this whole ordeal could be and perhaps 
should be titled: "The great LILO boot-loader disappearance mystery."