----- Original Message ----- From: Gregory T. Norris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Friday, March 17, 2000 5:08 PM Subject: Re: How to make SCSI only bootup
Hi > The "2FA:" prompt is generated by mbr... it looks like it doesn't know > which partition to boot (you haven't gotten far enough to require the > SCSI drivers yet). Just as a guess, I'd say that you didn't flag the > relevant partition as "active" when you partitioned the disk. > This 2FA thing coming from which boot sector? The one /sbin/lilo installs with boot=/dev/hda or boot=/dev/sda in the lilo.conf in the MBR? I can't find such an error code documented in the user.tex along with the lilo. Where is this thing documented? Thanks Previ > Try pressing "2" when you see the prompt... that tells mbr that you > want to boot off of the second primary partition (that's what the "2" > in "2FA:" is referring to), which should get you past this issue. > Assuming this works, don't forget to go back into fdisk and mark the > partition active. >
