Debian doesn't install LILO as the MBR, but rather uses a program called MBR. It is MBR that is presenting this prompt. Look in /usr/doc/MBR for documentation.
You don't give enough of a description of your installation to determine the problem. Here's a guess though. It sounds as if you also have NT installed and so that is probably on primary partition 1. Since no other primary partitions show up in the MBR prompt, you probably have Linux installed in a logical partition. The MBR boot loader can't load a boot sector from a logical partition. LILO can, but LILO can also load the Linux kernel directly. I'd recommend installing LILO as the MBR. Here's an example lilo.conf that will do the trick. It assumes NT is installed in sda1, Linux is in sda5, and the kernel name is /vmlinuz. ########################### compact boot=/dev/sda prompt other=/dev/sda1 label=winnt image=/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/sda5 read-only ########################### Tony On Friday, October 16, 1998 5:12 AM, Duncan Thomson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm hoping to run a course including the installation towards the end > of next > week, but the machines I'll be using have a problem. When debian is > installed to boot off the hard disk, a prompt: > > 1FA: > > comes up. According to the docs, this should mean that I can boot > off > partition 1 of the hard disk, or a floppy, but booting off partition > one > doesn't work. > > Any solutions to this problem? I know other people have had it, but > haven't > yet seen a solution on the lists. > > The disk controller is a AHA-2940 (SCSI), but booting NT from the BIOS > is no > problem... > > I know the problem is tied in some way to Lilo and the MBR, but don't > know > what to do to fix it... > > Please respond to my email as well as the list, since I read the list > only > through the web pages, and need an answer fairly soon (since we may > need to > cancel the course...). > > Cheers > > -duncan > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] > < > /dev/null >
