On Aug 22, Paul Lange wrote > Joy. I've installed Debian 1.3.1 fresh on a 486/66 with ~4 megs of ram. > This machine is to be a router for home, but right after the install when I'm > to reboot and see how my system goes, I get this as an error message when LILO > won't load: > > 3FA: > > Yup. That's it. That on a line. Then, I booted from my boot disk, logged in > as root, uninstalled lilo, reinstalled it, and got the same message when I > rebooted. It doesn't even get to LILO. It stops right after it checks the > floppy and gives the above informative message. > > Anybody have any ideas? > -- > Paul Lange > University of Texas ECE LRC Unix Services > internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > web: http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~pel >
make the "boot" line in /etc/lilo.conf read boot=/dev/hda - or sda for SCSI and run lilo alternatively, toggle the "bootable" flag on the partition that the "boot" line points at. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bend-or.com/~mschmitz Don't blame me - I voted libertarian! http://www.lp.org/ Use Debian Linux - the free Gnu/Linux http://www.debian.org/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
