On Fri, Feb 20, 1998 at 11:33:03PM -0500, Stephen P. Ryan wrote: > On 20 Feb, Bruce Dobrin wrote: > > 1FA: is what I get when I try to boot from My hard drive. I had this > > problem once before and the problem mysteriously went away. It hasn't gone > > away yet on this box. this disturbs me. This is a new machine with a > > 9gig cheeta drive, 1st (system) partition is 500meg. Any Ideas??? > > > > Thank you > > That is a prompt from your BIOS, wanting to know which partition / > drive to boot from. You might get this from pressing a key too soon in > the boot sequence, or from not having a proper boot sector installed. > If you are using LILO, check to make sure that it is installed on the > boot sector rather than in the partition.
Actually it's a prompt from the package mbr, not your BIOS. The effect is the same though. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
