[OT] Help: how to restore LILO/partition table

[Mick Mearns]

--- "M. Fioretti" <mfioretti at mclink.it> wrote:

> 
> The problem is that now, no matter how much I play with BIOS, anytime
> I power up it says again that Master is C: hard drive. And secondary
> is D:...another drive. So now, I guess, the BIOS itself goes into
> panic, as the secondary is a cdrom, other geometry and all, and
> freezes if I let it continue.
> 
> Now, can this be something I screw up by pressing the wrong key while
> reformatting (NOT repartitioning) or going through LILO steps? What?
> 
> And should/can I put things back to normal with some rescue floppy?
> Which one, and what should I do exactly? So that the hard drive
> returns to be seen as /dev/hda, and I can restart to install?
> 
> TIA,
> 	Marco Fioretti

Hey Marco;
  how are the drive jumpers set?
I am building a new system myself and noticed that the hard drive came
configured as "CS" os cable select.
Normally it would be "master"

Try changing your hard drive to "master" and your CD to "slave".
Are they on the same cable or do they share a cable?

If on seperate cables then both can be "master"
Try clearing your cmos and detecting them again.

Mick M.

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Dogs have Masters - Cats have Staff!


	
		
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