Re: New User with possible BIOS prob
I am not an expert, but...
1FA: should not be a problem, it is perfectly correct: it is the lilo loader
prompt.
It means
press 1 to boot off the first partition
press f to boot off the floppy
press a to list all partitions
If you have installed linux to boot off your first partition with lilo, then
you will be absolutely fine, just press 1.
frankie
aka Skunk Pussy
http://www.skunkpussy.freeserve.co.uk
-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Drayer <erdx@unm.edu>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Date: 09 December 1998 22:50
Subject: New User with possible BIOS prob
>I can boot debian from flopy but no matter what "boot order" I use under
>the BIOS the Gigabite 586DX dual pent will not start linux
>
>I see 1FA: as a prompt
>
>these are the BIOS messages
>Award modular BIOS v4.51
>Intel 430HX PCI for dual pentium v3.43
>award plug&play BIOS extension v1.0A detects my cdrom
>adaptec ultra/ultra wide BIOS v 1.24s2
>
>some one said they were running red hat on a system with hard ware like
>mine: I have 430HX chipset, IDE hard drive fujitsu ,matrox mellinium2
>4meg,ide cdrom from goldstar,adaptec 2940U controller
>
>this system had DOS, BEOS & NT running as well as can be expected that is.
>
>any advice on this matter would be greatly appreciated
>I can program but I am new to linux
>this is my second try at an install
>ie i spent several days on slackware only to have various people shrug
>though I was informd that sacrifice of small animals might be benificial.
>
>my slackware install went well except for the "not able to read my slack
>ware cdrom after I booted...yes I mounted it. I could not figure out the
>file type? I tried two of the most obvious chices given by the book and
>the sys admin. I even installed all the "stuff" befor the "smoke test" and
>was able to fiddel a littel to see what was there after boot...I aparintly
>needed to use a different vedio server fro Xfree and was trying to get it
>from the cd when I realized that linux could not read the file system.this
>has no relationship to the above problem but hey thanxs for reading this
>far got any ideas?
>
>
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