Re: New User with possible BIOS prob

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, th

Re: Help with Hard drive error messages

I have had this message: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:06, sector 1030230 with two hard drives, one of them brand new, so I do not think it means the hard drive is coming to the end of it's life. For me, it was the above repeated endlessly on increasing sector numbers. I think it was due to my h