Re: Lilo F4A
On Tue, 4 May 1999, John Galt wrote:
:
: Most certainly, the "F" is for floppy boot, the "4" is for booting from
: /dev/hda4, and the "A" is for showing all bootable partitions on /dev/hda.
: The only drawback to this prompt is that you are strictly limited to
: /dev/hda--no booting off /dev/hdb at all. It was in the docs the last
: time I checked (I was running bo at the time), AFAIK the "F4A" type lilo
: is a Debian-only degenerate, usually implying that you pressed shift too
: early in the process in 2.x distributions.
Nope - the prompt has nothing to do with LILO - it's generated by mbr,
from the mbr package. Docs in /usr/doc/mbr .
mbr is installed when you press "Y" in response to "Install a boot block
on the first disk?" during the initial install.
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