-once i was bored, and i was re-flashing my videocard bios... i thought it froze, so i just hard-offed my computer hehe.... turns out that i couldn't see a DAMNED thing on my screen...i boot it up, and everything looks good... my dads like "well, ibuypower is crappy, i am NEVER buying from that bad company again!"... hehe
well, anyway, i made an nVflash floppy, and i remembered by BBS popup (when i start my computer and hold F8 during post, a boot menu pops out and asks what drive you wanna boot from.. my floppy drive was the third drive down, i think).... so i popped the floppy in my comp, and then booted from the disk... then i MEMORIZED the nvflash command and the bios filename.. then i flashed it... without being able to see ANYTHING... hehe, im awesome (at least i had my dads spare gateway to make the floppy and memorize the thing).,... and my card is still running strong haha
-hmmmm....well, i was installing Kanotix BH9a on my computer... i got partition magic 8 (hehe) and then i made my NTFS partition like 10Gb smaller for linux to fit in...then i booted up into kanotix's liveCD, and then i tryed to install.. i didn't know i needed an riserfs part.... anyway, kanotix tells me that there is no empty space on my harddrive (i made the 10gb "partition" unformatted...).. so i told it to get into the partitioning program, QTParted... BIG MOFOING MISTAKE!!! holy crap, this program gave me the WORST problems...anyway, it tells me my drive has the 70GB NTFS windows partition. and 10GB of raw data... so i make that raw space 10GB of riserFS... then i go to the install screen again, its still like "NO!! NO KANOTIX FOR U!!".... so i still set everything up in qtparted... turns out that program just anihillates your MBR and partition record.. so after, it didn't install, i was gonna go into window snad partion... well, turns out it wouldn't boot form the HDD cause qtparted just ruined my HDD partition table... so there goes my 60GB of stuff... anyway, i get kanotix installed (more partitioning in qtparted, with a 2gb swap partition).... then i go to boot with grub.... Grub error25: cannot read data.... WTF???? so anyway, after 3 days of work and help from the nice ppl in #kanotix, i got my dualboot workin... but i had to re-acquire everything i had...... i ended up using cfdisk in kanotix to write partitions... now i got 60GB windows, 5GB swap (fat32) and about 12GB for linux (reiserFS).... whee