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Re: Promise Ultra 66



It has been my experience that the

2FA:

prompt usually occurs when I have screwed up and have more than one partition flagged as bootable.  Does this seem to be the case for more people. or is the 2FA: prompt a kind of 'panic' message from the MBR?


On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 02:34:16PM +0100, J.H.M. Dassen Ray" wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 21:32:35 -0800, Brian Lavender wrote:
> > but it just flashes the characters
> > 
> > 2FA:
> 
> That's from the Master Boot Record program. 
> 
> > I also tried booting with a floppy with IDE support, but it won't
> > detect it either.
> 
> The bootfloppies for Slink don't handle UDMA66. You need to use bootfloppies
> with a kernel on them that's patched for UDMA66 support (using the IDE
> patches from ftp.kernel.org:/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/). I'm not sure
> if potato's bootfloppies (will) support UDMA66.
> 
> HTH,
> Ray
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