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I have 2 maxtor hard drives set as master and slave with jumper settings according to the maxtor web site. The first hard drive I use for Win2k and have installed RH 9 on the second drive with lilo installed on the root of that drive (/dev/hdb1).
When I try to boot using the boot floppy I get a boot failed message and if I set ide1 as the 1st boot device in the bios I get li error on boot.
SMART is disabled and I've checked the hard drive jumpers again. Tried reinstalling RH 9 but same problem! (did have RH 8 on this pc when I was using 1 hard drive)
If you mean the redhat boot floppy, you should have your filesystem modules included with it. ext3 or reiserfs ins't in a default linux bootfloppy. Create this in the control panel of rh with your current kernel config.
If you mean a windows bootfloppy, yea, it's gonna be hosed because lilo is the bootloader, and vfat can't see linux partitions on top of that.
Reinstalled RH 9 again! (as had no way to boot into linux to change any settings) This time selected force lba32 in the advanced boot loader options during setup and I'm in.
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