On Fri, 03 Sep 1999, Paul McHale wrote: > Thanks for the help ! I'll give this a try. When I boot I get 1F0 in the > upper left part of the screen. I think this is also the address of the > CDROM drive. Probably coincidence.
Actually the 1F0 is a prompt provided by the mbr package that replaces the master boot record of your harddrive. If I remember correctly 1 boots the first partition, F boots floppy A, and 0 allows selection of booting from any partition 1-4 regardless of their active setting. -- Ashley Clark