Re: [SLE] SuSE 9.0 conflicts with disk manager

From: Mark Knudson (mrk_at_rochester.rr.com)
Date: 11/04/03

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    Mark Knudson wrote:

    > Damon Register wrote:
    >
    >> The PC giving me trouble is an HP 233MHz Pentium from 1997.
    >> I have upgraded the hard drive a while ago with a Maxtor 40GB.
    >> The BIOS of that PC didn't recognize a drive that big and there was
    >> no BIOS update available so I had to use the Maxtor disk manager
    >> software. It worked fine for Windows 98. I was even able to install
    >> SuSE 8.0 along with 98 without too much trouble. The disk manager
    >> provides for booting from floppy after loading the manager so I have
    >> to use the SuSE floppies to install. I tried to install SuSE 9.0
    >> but after all the packages are installed and the system reboots,
    >> the disk manager has been trashed and the system will not boot.
    >> I can restore the disk manager and Windows 98 is still there but
    >> The SuSE 9.0 is still not working
    >>
    >> Has anyone had experience with getting SuSE 9 to work with
    >> a disk that has manager software?
    >>
    >> Damon Register
    >>
    >>
    >>
    > Several years ago I installed linux on an AMS 200MHz laptop along side
    > Win95.
    > The machine has a bios extender from System Soft that I had previously
    > installed when I upgraded the disk.
    > I could not get GRUB and the bios extender to get along together. It
    > appeared that they both wanted to use the first track of the disk.
    > Switching to LILO solved the problem for me.
    >
    I checked the machine last night after upgrading to Suse 9.0.
    It boots both Win95 and Suse. The upgrade preserved LILO as the boot loader. 

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