>I believe I have nailed the problem to the wall. Your talk about the
>bios misdetecting the cable got me to thinking - I hadn't actually been
>able to see what the bios said it was configuring the disks attached to
>since lilo's menu came up microseconds later.
Put your Boot Sequence on "Floppy --> Anything else" and format a floppy
with just plain DOS. :-)
Works for me every time.
Regards
Henning
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