I am not an expert, but... 1FA: should not be a problem, it is perfectly correct: it is the lilo loader prompt. It means press 1 to boot off the first partition press f to boot off the floppy press a to list all partitions
If you have installed linux to boot off your first partition with lilo, then you will be absolutely fine, just press 1. frankie aka Skunk Pussy http://www.skunkpussy.freeserve.co.uk -----Original Message----- From: Eric Drayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Date: 09 December 1998 22:50 Subject: New User with possible BIOS prob >I can boot debian from flopy but no matter what "boot order" I use under >the BIOS the Gigabite 586DX dual pent will not start linux > >I see 1FA: as a prompt > >these are the BIOS messages >Award modular BIOS v4.51 >Intel 430HX PCI for dual pentium v3.43 >award plug&play BIOS extension v1.0A detects my cdrom >adaptec ultra/ultra wide BIOS v 1.24s2 > >some one said they were running red hat on a system with hard ware like >mine: I have 430HX chipset, IDE hard drive fujitsu ,matrox mellinium2 >4meg,ide cdrom from goldstar,adaptec 2940U controller > >this system had DOS, BEOS & NT running as well as can be expected that is. > >any advice on this matter would be greatly appreciated >I can program but I am new to linux >this is my second try at an install >ie i spent several days on slackware only to have various people shrug >though I was informd that sacrifice of small animals might be benificial. > >my slackware install went well except for the "not able to read my slack >ware cdrom after I booted...yes I mounted it. I could not figure out the >file type? I tried two of the most obvious chices given by the book and >the sys admin. I even installed all the "stuff" befor the "smoke test" and >was able to fiddel a littel to see what was there after boot...I aparintly >needed to use a different vedio server fro Xfree and was trying to get it >from the cd when I realized that linux could not read the file system.this >has no relationship to the above problem but hey thanxs for reading this >far got any ideas? > > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
