Re: strange "3FA:" prompt on toshiba tecra boot
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 11:46:15AM +1030, Mark Phillips wrote:
>
> My friend's Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop won't boot. Previously it has
> booted fine, but currently all it comes up with is a
>
> 3FA:
>
> prompt. Hitting return just causes this prompt to repeat itself. It
> doesn't even seem to get to lilo. I can't think what is wrong, and I
> couldn't find anything in the archives on it.
>
> Any ideas anyone?
You installed lilo into the MBR - There was a decision to let the
debian MBR to show up always not only on request as it did for
slink because its a potential security risk when trying to only
let users boot specific operating systems on specific partitions
as you can override this within the MBR.
Flo
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Florian Lohoff flo@rfc822.org +49-5201-669912
Why is it called "common sense" when nobody seems to have any?
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