On Tue, 10 May 2005 12:46:07 -0700, Louis.Calderone wrote:

> The first time I installed it, thought it wouldnt boot because I opted
> not to install LILO, so since i had a shitload of time on my hands and
> I was watching TV i just decided to reinstall the whole thing again
> instead of poking around and trying to find the problem, again it wont
> boot from the hard drive only this time I also installed LILO, and both
> times I made sure that hda1 was flagged boot in fdisk. I have 2 hard
> drives for this computer that I swap, one of them is a 120gb HD with XP
> on it, when I switch that one back in everything contines as normal
> (well if you call windoze normal ;-) ) and the other is a 20GB that I
> had in my xbox but now that I found a 40gig for that I can use it to
> brushen up on my linux. I have installed many many times slackware
> 8.1, debian, and even gentoo (whew that was fun haha) on this same
> syayem with this same 20GB HD. Anyway Im sure I overlooked something
> here, im just trying to think if I gave you guys all the info... ohh
> yeah only other thing is i checked the bios and everything was normal,
> but you already knew that because i said that the xp HD was booting
> fine.
>
> TIA for any help, if this is the wrong group to post to for help,
> please politely point me in the right direction, thank you.

Did you install LILO in the MBA? That works better than installing it in
hda1.

John