Anne Wilson wrote: > On Friday 10 February 2006 17:12, Mike McCarty wrote: > >>Tell you what, if you decide to toss the disc, how about mailing >>it to me instead? I'll pay postage and throw in a few $$$ for >>your time. :-) >> > > :-) I'm really hoping that I don't need to. Meanwhile, I now have a > situation that leaves me utterly confused. > > I've installed FC4 to the master drive. All went well until the Reboot. Then > it attempted to launch Mandriva - it reports a kernel panic because it can't > find init. > > I was going to change that box onto FC4 within the next few days anyway, so I > don't want to recover Mandriva, only the data. It appears that lilo is > suddenly working! > > Question - why is it trying to boot from hdb, rather than hda, where FC4 is? > What can I do about it? > > Anne > Are you using volume labels? If so, it may be using the wrong partitions because you have the same label on both drives. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
