Hello, while trying to install on a laptop, I messed up something. It used to have "/dev/hda" (hard drive) and /dev/hdb (CD-rom). However it happened, at a certain point during install I started seeing messages that we would install to hdb, ie the hard drive had become slave device. Now LILO goes "07 07" ad libitum, I guess because it is told to start from the cdrom. Ie, cdrom had become IDE master, hard disk had become slave. The BIOS reported the same thing. 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 -- Marco Fioretti mfioretti, at the server mclink.it Red Hat for low memory http://www.rule-project.org/en/ If you have the right attitude, interesting problems will find you Eric S. Raymond, "The Cathedral and the bazaar", chapter 2
