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clarjonl ...

Hi,

Yes more info please. Could you just go to your bios, key "F1" or "del" during the initial boot. And change the sequence to look for a cdrom boot first. Or use Smart Boot Manager copied to a floppy if that dosen't work, and boot the cd via the floppy.

And post the output of ...

]# cfdisk -Pt /dev/hda

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Hello, I am using knoppix on a secondary partition,
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I'll guess ... An extended-logical ???

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 but when I use it, I have to set the active partition to the proper partition before I can boot.
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I'll guess ... Your first primary, probably windows. That makes no sense ???

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 What is going on? Is there a fix?
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If you can post the above, people will be able to tell whats where by the filesystem id numbers. So yep, there probably is a fix.

 
jm
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