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Re: 1FA:

On Fri, Feb 20, 1998 at 11:33:03PM -0500, Stephen P. Ryan wrote:
> On 20 Feb, Bruce Dobrin wrote:
> > 1FA:   is what I get when I try to boot from My hard drive.  I had this 
> > problem once before and the problem mysteriously went away. It hasn't gone 
> > away yet on this box.  this disturbs me.  This is a new machine with a 
> > 9gig cheeta drive,  1st (system) partition is 500meg.  Any Ideas???
> > 
> > Thank you
> 
> That is a prompt from your BIOS, wanting to know which partition /
> drive to boot from.  You might get this from pressing a key too soon in
> the boot sequence, or from not having a proper boot sector installed.
> If you are using LILO, check to make sure that it is installed on the
> boot sector rather than in the partition.

Actually it's a prompt from the package mbr, not your BIOS. The effect
is the same though.

hamish
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