Boot problem

[Michael Sammartano]

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 at 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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