You were right. I get another menu: 1234F: When I looked around the corner at the PC front, I saw the floppy light come on when I pressed F during either the 1FA: or 1234F: prompt. I put a floppy in and pressed F and it is now booting.
I am assuming this means there is no boot record on the HD since 1,2,3 and 4 don't work ... I guess I'll try LILO tonight. thanks paul > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Wim > Kerkhoff > Sent: Friday, September 03, 1999 12:26 PM > To: Paul McHale > Cc: debian-user > Subject: RE: boot from hd (was RE: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?) > > > Try pressing 'a', for 'A'dvanced. That should give you some more > options, if > my memory serves correct. You probably have more partitions that > 1, but they > aren't showing up. > > > On 03-Sep-99 Paul McHale wrote: > > I was mistaken, it is 1FA. I am not sure how to enter 1. The > exact prompt > > is > > > > 1FA: > > > > When I press a key I get nothing. When I press enter, I get > another prompt: > > > > 1FA:1FA: > > > > Is there a special way to enter it ? > > > >> 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. > > --- > Regards, > > Wim Kerkhoff > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.canadianhomes.net/wim > > A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention, > with the possible exceptions of handguns and Tequilla. > -- Mitch Ratcliffe > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe > [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
