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 >> > away yet on this box. this disturbs me. This is a new machine with a >> > 9gig cheeta drive, 1st (system) partition is 500meg. Any Ideas??? >> > >> > Thank you >> >> That is a prompt from your BIOS, wanting to know which partition / >> drive to boot from. You might get this from pressing a key too soon in >> the boot sequence, or from not having a proper boot sector installed. >> If you are using LILO, check to make sure that it is installed on the >> boot sector rather than in the partition. > > Actually it's a prompt from the package mbr, not your BIOS. The effect > is the same though. > > hamish
I stand corrected. I thought it was from the BIOS because I also thought I got that message from one of my machines before I installed Linux on it. I just checked my motherboard manual and found no trace of this; I just checked /usr/doc/mbr and read all about it. Learning something new everyday, -- Stephen Ryan Debian GNU/Linux Mathematics graduate student, Dartmouth College -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .