Newbie: Booting a new system
I've just installed Debian on my computer. I'm having trouble booting
without using a boot disk.
Debian's the only operating system on the internal (EIDE) hard drive. Win95
is on an external (SCSI) hard drive.
The internal drive is 2.5 GB, partitioned as follows:
hda1 - 128 MB - swap partition, located at the end of the drive
hda2 - 1023 MB - /, located at the beginning of the drive
hda3 - everything else - /usr/, located in the middle
The BIOS is set to LBA translation.
When I boot from the drive, instead of the usual meaningful hardware-probe
messages, I get a prompt:
2FA:
If I hit enter, it repeats itself. If I press 2, the hard drive light comes
on, but nothing happens. If I press F, it checks the floppy drive for a
bootable partition. If I press A, the prompt changes to:
1234F:
Again, F boots from the floppy drive if I've inserted my boot floppy.
Pressing one of the listed digits makes the hard drive light come on, but
nothing else happens.
This isn't what I'm used to seeing from LILO on a working (Slackware)
system. So what's going on?
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Chris Buxton
Internet and Database Consultant
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