Re: Dual boot boot disk problems

[ABrady <kcsmart kc rr com>]

On Sun, 2 Jun 2002 09:44:46 +0100
"Aidan Whitehall" <aidan thenetprofits co uk> wrote:

> > Hmmmm... This has never happened to me,
> > [snip]
> 
> Just wanted to say thanks to both you and ABrady for the pointers....
> got it going.
> 
> In case you're interested, I did "mkbootdisk 2.4.2-2 --device
> /dev/fd0" on old PC that boots OK. Then, dropped that disk into the
> faster PC with Linux on the D drive and typed "linux root=/dev/hdb5"
> and it worked!
> 
> Now, if I can just get it to detect the modem..... :-)

And, what type of modem might that be? Winmodem?

http://www.linmodems.org/
http://walbran.org/sean/linux/linmodem-howto.html
http://www.google.com/search?q=linmodem

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