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Posted: Jan. 19 2006,15:47 QUOTE
I installed linux to hdd3
Its been disabled in the BIOs (purposely) but is WIn partition (hdd1) IS detected in Win98 and all hdd(1-3) are detected when running DSL from CD.

So i installed to hdd3.. and didn't want to install a bootloader..
How do i use a boot cd (i got DSl / knoppix / slackware etc boot cds) to get it up and running whenever i want?

tried cheat codes like root=/dev/hdd3 (never worked) and fromhd=/dev/hdd3 (neither did this)
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Posted: Jan. 19 2006,15:59 QUOTE
Did you try "linux root=/dev/hdd3 ro" or "dsl root=/dev/hdd3 ro"?
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Posted: Jan. 20 2006,01:56 QUOTE
Yeah, linux is not recognised as an image, and when i try dsl root=/dev/hdd3 it loads some init's and then cant find the kernel, so drops to a limited shell.
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Posted: Jan. 20 2006,10:34 QUOTE
Are you sure that it is /dev/hdd, i.e. secondary slave? If you're not sure, you could boot the live CD and run "fdisk -l" as root.
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Posted: Jan. 20 2006,14:00 QUOTE
YES.
I've done numerous installs on it... (GENTOO kicked my @$$)

BTW, for some reason, The HDD installer doesn't install the Bootloader ... I tried installing obth lilo and GRUB...
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