At 14:49 6/12/97 -0500, Carl Mummert wrote:
I always get 4FA:, but only if I hit Left Shift BEFORE the lilo
prompt appears. But if I hit enter at the 4FA: prompt, the lilo
prompt appears. If I hit shift after LILO: appears, everythings is
normal.
I always assumed this was a bios thing, but I
Eloy A. Paris wrote:
Aaron Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: I just installed Debian 1.3.1 on my 486 w/4MB RAM. I made Debian hard
: drive bootable because it's the only drive in the system. When I
: rebooted, I got this message:
:
: 3FA:
:
: This is all it says. Even when I
drive in the system. When I
: rebooted, I got this message:
:
: 3FA:
:
: This is all it says. Even when I try to boot off my boot disk, it says
: the same message. Please help. Thanks.
/usr/doc/mbr/README explains it all. The documentation in
/usr/doc/lilo can also help
Aaron Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: I just installed Debian 1.3.1 on my 486 w/4MB RAM. I made Debian hard
: drive bootable because it's the only drive in the system. When I
: rebooted, I got this message:
:
: 3FA:
:
: This is all it says. Even when I try to boot off my boot disk, it says
I just installed Debian 1.3.1 on my 486 w/4MB RAM. I made Debian hard
drive bootable because it's the only drive in the system. When I
rebooted, I got this message:
3FA:
This is all it says. Even when I try to boot off my boot disk, it says
the same message. Please help. Thanks
Run liloconfig, and answer the questions it asks you appropriately.
Is this the right program? all three questions are yes/no types, rather than
allowing me to change them. It wants to use /dev/hda3, /, for boot, and has no
option to change to /dev/hda1.
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Run liloconfig, and answer the questions it asks you appropriately.
Is this the right program? all three questions are yes/no types, rather than
allowing me to change them. It wants to use /dev/hda3, /, for boot, and has
no option to change to /dev/hda1.
I took a look at it, and
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Date: Saturday, December 06, 1997 3:12 PM
Subject: Re: 3FA: ???
Run liloconfig, and answer the questions it asks you appropriately.
Is this the right program? all three questions are yes/no types, rather
than allowing me to change them. It wants
I always get 4FA:, but only if I hit Left Shift BEFORE the lilo
prompt appears. But if I hit enter at the 4FA: prompt, the lilo
prompt appears. If I hit shift after LILO: appears, everythings is
normal.
I always assumed this was a bios thing, but I have absolutely no idea
of the real cause.
On Sat, 6 Dec 1997, Carl Mummert wrote:
I always get 4FA:, but only if I hit Left Shift BEFORE the lilo
prompt appears. But if I hit enter at the 4FA: prompt, the lilo
prompt appears. If I hit shift after LILO: appears, everythings is
normal.
I always assumed this was a bios thing, but I
I've seen the 1FA business before, but now that I've managed to move my file
system over to my new drive, and lilo'd it, I get a 3FA: after the hardware
check. The key sequence A1 (i think) will get me to LILO, which will boot if
left alone. I checked and I'm not touching the keys
I've seen the 1FA business before, but now that I've managed to move my file
system over to my new drive, and lilo'd it, I get a 3FA: after the hardware
check. The key sequence A1 (i think) will get me to LILO, which will boot if
left alone. I checked and I'm not touching the keys
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