On Tue, 4 May 1999, John Galt wrote: : : Most certainly, the "F" is for floppy boot, the "4" is for booting from : /dev/hda4, and the "A" is for showing all bootable partitions on /dev/hda. : The only drawback to this prompt is that you are strictly limited to : /dev/hda--no booting off /dev/hdb at all. It was in the docs the last : time I checked (I was running bo at the time), AFAIK the "F4A" type lilo : is a Debian-only degenerate, usually implying that you pressed shift too : early in the process in 2.x distributions.
Nope - the prompt has nothing to do with LILO - it's generated by mbr, from the mbr package. Docs in /usr/doc/mbr . mbr is installed when you press "Y" in response to "Install a boot block on the first disk?" during the initial install. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
