Though I did not comment upon the original message, I too feel as you do
and that is that I have seen that code (1FA:) displayed on a machine
that did not have Linux installed. This is strictly SWAG but I think
that it came from the ROM on a SCSI controller card at the time that I
believe that I s
On 22 Feb, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> 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
>> > a
On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, 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 mach
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.
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) partit
Karl,
It's a deliberate decision to not put LILO on the MBR, but on the partition.
Removing the "1" works, but makes it difficult to boot other operating
systems. He shouldn't get the prompt from the "mbr" program unless something
is wrong with LILO or the partition hasn't been activated.
The MBR
At 11:31 AM 17/07/97 -0400, Chris Smith wrote:
>Ran the installation program from the official CD but when I try to boot
>from the hard drive I get a "1FA:" prompt. What does this mean? More
>importantly where can I find a list of such messages and there meanings?
>Thanks.
The 1FA: at boot is ac
It's saying that it sees that partition 1 on the first hard disk is
bootable, and it is offering you the option to boot partition 1, the
Floppy, or to go into Advanced mode. Advanced mode offers you the choice
of booting any partition on the first disk.
Generally you'll see this prompt if you hold
> Ran the installation program from the official CD but when I try to boot
> from the hard drive I get a "1FA:" prompt. What does this mean? More
> importantly where can I find a list of such messages and there meanings?
I don't know the exact meaning, but try hitting return, and seeing if it
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