When booting from the floppy, the cd drive is locked and not available. Which file needs editing? I cannot find the boot menu file that is shown on boot. I've also found two on the hard drive and edited them but no changes are taking place to the menu on startup.

I also need to restore the W2k mbr so as to install PartitionMagic, but only when my Linux floppy boot is perfect. How? I've forgotten!

mdk 8.2/W2k

Hi
I dont exactly understand your problem about getting
a menu from boot flop, but to create a new one use
mkbootdisk, like: mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0 2.4.18-6mdk
for default mdk kernel or use uname -r to get it
As for your restore mbr use lilo -u (man lilo for details)
good luck

Yes thanks, now mkbootdisk returns an error message;
"unable to close properly mkbootdisk 256".

My boot disk is apparently "no boot disk..." so for the moment I'm not touching the mbr.
Any ideas please?

Hi
I have seen this error somewhere, search and found it, check
http://www.club-nihil.net/mub/viewto...light=bootdisk
maybe it fits
If not; there is another way i've seen in a mag. All done by
hand using lilo, vmlinuz and boot.b but first try this.
Regards

I've solved the bootdisk problem thank you, by formatting (again) a floppy before doing a mkbootdisk etc.
However now on startup, I'm getting the error message "sound server fatal error: /tmp/mcop-****** is not owned by user. In fact this is in root/ so as a user I can't touch it. Do I need to modify permissions having logged on as root or what???

Hi
Good boot
About your sound problem; dont know the error itself,
but i did a little google on it. It seems a permission thing
or an update from kde2 to kde3 related thing. Check for inst.
http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/forum/messages/290.html
for one solution.
Some people removed the mcop related files from their
/home and /tmp/ with various results tho.
The error pops during boot, or later when firing up
X, Kde, login ?? Does the error for inst pop up when
you boot into runlevel 3 ?

For future questions that differ from your first thread title,
i think you get more response if you ask that in a new
thread. I dont know if trickykid 'll say "yet another double
post ?" if you do that right now, tho
Enjoy

--- ah i've seen you just did that, don't forget to read this one too--