My 250gb western digital failed on me during KnoppMyth installation so its in the trash. The next best HD I own is a brand new 320GB PRT Seagate SATA. I have WinXP loaded on that and I am not up for trying to install Knoppmyth on it untill I get it going on an IDE drive. Well I found an ancient 40GB Maxtor thats surprisingly 7800RPM but it is still on the slow side. I finally got KnoppMyth to install and when I press OK it gives me a shell prompt (not sure if shell prompt is the correct terminology) and I procede to reboot and change bios setting to boot from HD0, HD1, HD2 in that order. Reboot and it gives me an error "No bootable disk". Now for reference the drive is primary master with no slave and I have completely disconnected the SATA drive. I would think during partitioning this single drive would show up as hda1, hda2, hda3, hda4 (because of 4 partitions) but instead it shows as hdb1, hdb2, hdb3, hdb4. I am not sure if that is a problem but I would just think that it should be A instead of B as all the writeups I find show A and not B. I have also tried to make the lilo in the MBR as well as the partition and neither work. Help is appreciated. I have been slowly buying and building up this machine for a while now so I would cry is I had to give up now or go with... Windows.

It is fixed now, my old maxtor had some different jumper pin settings. My fault.