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One of the most confusing things to me in Linux is booting. I cannot seem
to get my SuSe install to boot properly. I think I know what the problem
is but..
The system is: IDE primary - win95 hda master and CD slave.
Promise IDE PCI - My installed linux - hdf
SuSe says it makes a boot floppy but it just gives a screenful of O1's
I can boot from the SuSe CD if I start the install and quit and then 'boot
current system' and then tell it my root directory - /dev/hdf7
I think I am fighting a couple of problems - maybe? My bios does not
recognize the add-on card so a reference to hdf in my floppy boot is
meaningless. Do I need to have the actual kernel on the floppy and boot it
there? If so how do I do that? dd it over? I did not actually make a
kernel,, it was a SuSe install.
If I wanted to 'can' the add-on and just put this on hda would I edit
fstab and change all entries to hdf to hda? Then reboot, edit lilo.conf to
hda and run lilo?
Don't ask why the system is configured this way! I know it is strange. But
I did it and I want to learn from it. I may not leave it this way!
Doug
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* Doug Crompton *
* Richboro, PA 18954 *
* 215-431-6307 *
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* doug@crompton.com *
* wa3dsp@wa3dsp.ampr.org *
* http://www.crompton.com *
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