On Tue, May 26, 1998 at 08:27:09PM +0200, Tomas Petersson wrote: > Hello, I have just installed Debian Linux, everything > went fine except I can't boot from the harddrive. > If I boot from the 'Custom Boot Floppy' it works, > but when I boot the harddrive I get the following > prompt: '2FA:', and nothing happens.
I had the same problem, the error is in /etc/lilo.conf, the problem is that the installation program puts (for my system): boot=/dev/hda5 root=/dev/hda5 change this to: boot=/dev/hda root=/dev/hda5 or whatever your configuration happens to be, and then run lilo as root, it should boot now..
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