Alexander Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 27 March 2000 14:39:17 -0800, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > > EIDE disk and it's not found??? Weird. Could it be a BIOS setting? > > After managing to get into the BIOS (not been easy) if I > activate the hard disc it will not be booted by floppy disc > any more and therefore I am sort of lost.
That is a different setting I think you hit -- boot from C drive or floppy then the C drive, etc. Has nothing to do with "enabling the IDE controller" for instance. > And there is nothing on the hard disc. And I do not have a > CDROM here. I have the drive but no CDROM here. Argh. I don't know -- this is a pure hardware/kernel issue. I'm not sure if we can help. Have you tried the Linux Laptop HOWTO, mail lists, or the debian-laptop@lists.debian.org list? -- .....Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>