-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 I couldn't boot into either. What I did in the mean time, I created a lilo boot disk from my slackware installation and that allows me to boot into both systems. So I think you may have hit the nail on the head when you mentioned the BIOS losing the boot settings. I sure wish we could get a good talking BIOS. Anyway, I'm about to go and try installing Deb again but this time write the lilo boot image to the floppy for the time being. Hopefully I can do that to get the kernel matched up. Thanks for the help so far. On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 04:34:21PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > When you say that you can't boot, do you mean that you can't boot > windows, gnu/linux, or neither? It's possible that with the swaping in > and out of drives, you're bios needs to be told to rerecognize 1 or both > hard drives. I used to have a machine where this was an issue; if you > didn't touch ide drives, everything was fine, if you hooked up a new > drive, or simply removed an existing one, you had to go into bios, and > set the hds to auto again, else it wouldn't acknowledge the drives are > there. Note that just because your livecd is seeing the drives doesn't > matter, since linux does it's drive detection and handling without > relying purely on what the bios has to say. > > Perhaps if you can describe what you are, and are not able to boot, > and if you can have a sightling verify hd setup in bios, we can try to > help more. > > Greg > > > On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 02:57:59PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: > > Well, things are even worse now. In trying to isolate my problem, I > > took out the new drive that I was installing linux on and replaced it > > with my original (second drive) which had my old working slackware on > > it and I still can't boot. With my original drive, I even did a lilo > > -r /mnt from my slackware CD and that appeared to go fine; I can't say > > I've ever experienced this kind of problem before. I'm trying to do > > everything to avoid having to completely re-install windows. I > > unfortunately need windows on my box for some time yet. For whatever > > reason, my MBR won't take the loader or won't boot for me. > > > > > - -- > web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org > gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc > skype: gregn1 > (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) > > - -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAkjxN/0ACgkQ7s9z/XlyUyATEgCfUsSMrgKJqUpfl7CvKKsZObEJ > DP0AnR00vXyF0VwDSr6mrzlTATLD/d1Q > =tem+ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFI8ViEWSjv55S0LfERA+q1AKDIvHpySjlZ0eKQOjwCG6eDv5Rs7ACg9Fkc 3Hi0zenrVBfx08Tx71+KLAU= =pa4X -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
