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  From: Anthony Rumble <smilie@LinuxHelp.com.au>
  To  : Bryan Wetton <bryanw@box.net.au>
  Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:59:30 +1000 (EST)

Re: Linux Pocketbook

On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Bryan Wetton wrote:

> Over the past week I have installed - on different Pcs both Redhat 6 and
> OpenLinux. I am amazed at the enhanced GUI installation of the Caldera
> distribution -far better than the RedHat method. Is the distribution
> important ultimately?
> 
> However, I have come up with a boot problem with Caldera.
> 1 After installation from WIN98 I puddled around in KDE. At some stage ( I
> forget ) I was invited to reboot. I did. Thus having not RTFM'd I could not
> boot to Linux.
> 2 After a quick reinstall I located p 56 and following instructions I marked
> my Linux partition as Active. But still the PC will not boot - why - because
> the partition is hdb5 i.e. the second HDD. Nothing prevented me from
> installing Linux there. Can I somehow boot to the second HDD?

Effectively what you are doing it using DOS's master boot record to boot
linux.. DOS's boot thing cannot boot to anything other than the primary
drive.

Caldera has this problem because their commercial version uses BootManager
to get around this issue, but the GPL one on the PB doesn't have it.

You need to basically make LILO install itself as the Master Boot Record
(MBR)..

Note: The redhat install does this proplerly.

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