Re: 1FA: problem still in hamm disks

1998-10-19 Thread Avery Pennarun
On Sat, Oct 17, 1998 at 09:49:54AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: Quoting Tom Lees ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): While I'm at it, *PLEASE* drop the dependency of lilo on mbr. I don't want a new mbr eg if I want to install LILO to use on a floppy ONLY (I use GRUB on my HD). Change it to Recommends. mbr

Re: 1FA: problem still in hamm disks

1998-10-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Oct 17, 1998 at 09:49:54AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: Quoting Tom Lees ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): While I'm at it, *PLEASE* drop the dependency of lilo on mbr. I don't want a new mbr eg if I want to install LILO to use on a floppy ONLY (I use GRUB on my HD). Change it to Recommends. mbr

Re: 1FA: problem still in hamm disks

1998-10-18 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ben Gertzfield) wrote on 16.10.98 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Brent == Brent Fulgham [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brent I'd like to chime in -- It's a real annoyance that the base Brent disks don't set up lilo to let you boot into multiple Brent operating systems.

Re: 1FA: problem still in hamm disks

1998-10-17 Thread Tom Lees
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 12:34:09PM -0700, Ben Gertzfield wrote: Brent == Brent Fulgham [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brent I'd like to chime in -- It's a real annoyance that the base Brent disks don't set up lilo to let you boot into multiple Brent operating systems. Couldn't it

Re: 1FA: problem still in hamm disks

1998-10-17 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Tom Lees ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): While I'm at it, *PLEASE* drop the dependency of lilo on mbr. I don't want a new mbr eg if I want to install LILO to use on a floppy ONLY (I use GRUB on my HD). Change it to Recommends. mbr being a high priority and/or essential (can't remember if it is)

1FA: problem still in hamm disks

1998-10-16 Thread Duncan Thomson
i've seen postings about this before, but as yet no solution (either as a message or in the boot disks). when debian is made bootable from the hard disk on certain systems, the prompt 1FA: comes up, but the system will not boot off partition 1. the disk controller is AHA-2940. any solutions

Re: 1FA: problem still in hamm disks

1998-10-16 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 09:18:23AM +, Duncan Thomson wrote: i've seen postings about this before, but as yet no solution (either as a message or in the boot disks). when debian is made bootable from the hard disk on certain systems, the prompt 1FA: comes up, but the system will not boot

Re: 1FA: problem still in hamm disks

1998-10-16 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Enrique Zanardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 09:18:23AM +, Duncan Thomson wrote: i've seen postings about this before, but as yet no solution (either as a message or in the boot disks). when debian is made bootable from the hard disk on certain systems, the

Re: 1FA: problem still in hamm disks

1998-10-16 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 10:11:05AM -0700, Ben Gertzfield wrote: Enrique Zanardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 09:18:23AM +, Duncan Thomson wrote: i've seen postings about this before, but as yet no solution (either as a message or in the boot disks).

Re: 1FA: problem still in hamm disks

1998-10-16 Thread Brent Fulgham
still in hamm disks Enrique Zanardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 09:18:23AM +, Duncan Thomson wrote: i've seen postings about this before, but as yet no solution (either as a message or in the boot disks). when debian is made bootable from the hard disk on certain

Re: 1FA: problem still in hamm disks

1998-10-16 Thread Martin Schulze
Brent Fulgham wrote: I'd like to chime in -- It's a real annoyance that the base disks don't set up lilo to let you boot into multiple operating systems. Couldn't it ask if you want to dual-boot with windows, or whatever, and generate an appropriate lilo.conf file? This would be nice.

Re: 1FA: problem still in hamm disks

1998-10-16 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Enrique == Enrique Zanardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Enrique Currently, that partition is marked as bootable just Enrique after installing LILO and mbr (first a dialog is Enrique displayed asking the user if he wants it so, something Enrique like If you want the Debian system to

Re: 1FA: problem still in hamm disks

1998-10-16 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Brent == Brent Fulgham [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brent I'd like to chime in -- It's a real annoyance that the base Brent disks don't set up lilo to let you boot into multiple Brent operating systems. Couldn't it ask if you want to Brent dual-boot with windows, or whatever, and