Raymond A. Ingles dixit: > On Mon, 15 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I just reinstalled Debian and partitioned /dev/hda and /dev/hdc HDDs into > > various partitions, of which I reserved /dev/hda1 (200MB) for installing > > M$DOS6.x and /dev/hda2 (100MB) for IBM-DOS4.x > > Based on the following paragraph, I assume you meant /dev/hdc1 and hdc2.
Sorry that was a typo... > From what I understand, no Microsoft product will boot off of anything > but the primary master. (In Linux terms, hda.) No version of Windows will, > for sure. You might be able to convince DOS to do it, if you have LILO > call it. No, LILO won't/can't do anything here, it seems the problem is that when I try to install DOS, the installation program hangs, probably because it doesn't find any space in /dev/hda. > Note that DOS must boot from an "active" partition. Linux doesn't care at > all about that, but DOS & Windows are total sticklers. And you can only > have one active partition per drive as I understand it. You may not be > able to boot two different versions of DOS on the same machine... Never mind, it's not really as important as to deinstalling Linux and making space in /dev/hda for DOS, I guess I no longer have a real need for it (well, just for Lotus 123 for DOS, I'm used to it). > > Else, since reinstallation the CDROM driver is not working well. It's and > > OTI-HERMES ATAPI (primary slave) and during installation gave many errors > > like: > > hdb: irq timeout: status=0xd0 > > hdb: ATAPI reset complete > > I don't have any good ideas here. Check the cables and so forth. Has it > worked with Linux before? I recall some similar resetting messages with earlier installations, but no problems afterwards... actually, I'm not having any trouble with mounting CDs with the Jolliet extension. Thank you. -- Un saludo, Horacio [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ Quis custodiet ipsos custodet? ------------------------------
