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Wunderdog
07-15-2002, 10:19 AM
At the moment I have Windows ME & Windows 2000 installed onto two partions on my HDD. I have just installed Re Hat Linux 5.1 onto a spare partition on my hard drive and will boot OK from a Linux boot disk.

Following advice from a Linux HOWTO notice I have managed to strip the LILO and creat a BOOTSECT.LNX file which is on the boot partition and I have also modified the BOOT.INI to "see" the Linux file.

When I boot my PC and try to load Windows ME or Windows 2000 it loads without problems. However when I try the Linux option the system hangs with an "L" in the top left corner of my screen.

Another problem I have is that when I boot from the Linux disk and then exit Linux, when I reboot my PC the secondary slave device (CD-RW) is not detected by the BIOS. I have to go into the BIOS and re-detect all the devices.

I hope that someone, somewhere will be able to help with this headache.

mjc
07-15-2002, 10:28 AM
It almost sounds like a straight BIOS problem, leave all your drives set to auto-detect, and possibly check the battery.