Re: Newbie: Booting a new system
Boot up with the boot disk, and run /sbin/lilo again.
On Fri, 6 Feb 1998, Chris Buxton wrote:
> 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?
>
> ________________________________
> Chris Buxton
> Internet and Database Consultant
>
>
>
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