🚀 go-pugleaf

Hiyas,

Well I'd copied Linux off a friends CDROM onto one of my HDD's
(there's two in this poota, a 1 gig and a 1.2 gig). So I installed
Linux off one of my MSDOS partitions and as it neared the end of the
installation it asks me if I would like to make a Linux bootdisk and
setup LILO. So I opt to make a bootdisk and it comes up with another
menu that allows me to format and then create the bootdisk. I stick a
floppy into the drive, then slect format. The FDD light comes on for a
sec, then disappears then I get a whole lot of crap about Unable to
access device /floppy0 or something like that. Then it quit back to
the prompt and I was unable to do anything whatsoever (reboot,
shutdown, couldn't even run setup or anything like that again).

So I rebooted and now the poota refuses to boot with that 2nd hdd
that I tried to install Linux on. (That is, it gets stuck somewhere
along the CMOS bootup tests I think)  Anyone know what actually caused
it to crash and how I might fix it? (I'd also like to know whether the
HDD is actually dead now, or its something that I might be able to fix
with some software?)

Thanks,
Yun
(gumby@zip.com.au)