Re: 3FA: ???
At 14:49 6/12/97 -0500, Carl Mummert wrote: I always get 4FA:, but only if I hit Left Shift BEFORE the lilo prompt appears. But if I hit enter at the 4FA: prompt, the lilo prompt appears. If I hit shift after LILO: appears, everythings is normal. I always assumed this was a bios thing, but I have absolutely no idea of the real cause. The Way I worked it out: I used to get 1FA: If i hit Shift before my default OS booted (MS-DOG). After hitting 1, DOS would boot - On My 1st (1) partition. Hitting F would cause the machine to attempt to boot off of a (F)loppy. Hitting A would bring up a new prompt: 1234F: (I think) 1 would boot DOS 2 Would boot Linux. but linux was on /dev/hda7 (/dev/hda5-8 are extended Partitions, hda1 is my only primary) so my next assumption was each number represented the next available bootable partition. (my /dev/hda7 had the bootable flag toggled). As for 3 and 4.. Nothing happened ?? F would try the floppy again. Thats my deciphering, I felt like sharing it :) Mike. Im currently not on the list, as I am away from home for the holidays :) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: 3FA ???
Eloy A. Paris wrote: Aaron Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : I just installed Debian 1.3.1 on my 486 w/4MB RAM. I made Debian hard : drive bootable because it's the only drive in the system. When I : rebooted, I got this message: : : 3FA: : : This is all it says. Even when I try to boot off my boot disk, it says : the same message. Please help. Thanks. /usr/doc/mbr/README explains it all. The documentation in /usr/doc/lilo can also help. Since the user says he can't boot even from floppy, he may need the text here. This extract is from /usr/doc/mbr/README: == 4. The boot process ~~~ When the MBR is first loaded it waits for a configurable length of time, monitoring the keyboard, for key presses. If the MBR detects a key press, it will interrupt the boot process, and display its prompt. Otherwise, it will load the first sector of the default partition, and execute it. If a disk error occours, the MBR will display its prompt. 4.1 The boot prompt ~~~ The boot prompt looks something like this: 14FA: This is the list of valid keys which may be pressed. This means that partitions 1, and 4 can be booted, also the first floppy drive (F). The A means that 'advanced' mode may be entered, in which any partition may be booted. The prompt for this mode looks like this: 1234F: The only other valid key which may be pressed is RETURN, which continues booting with the default partition. == -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Unsolicited email advertisements are not welcome; any person sending such will be invoiced for telephone time used in downloading together with a £25 administration charge. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: 3FA ???
What I realized after I wrote this was that he was trying to boot with the root disk. Oliver Elphick wrote: Eloy A. Paris wrote: Aaron Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : I just installed Debian 1.3.1 on my 486 w/4MB RAM. I made Debian hard : drive bootable because it's the only drive in the system. When I : rebooted, I got this message: : : 3FA: : : This is all it says. Even when I try to boot off my boot disk, it says : the same message. Please help. Thanks. /usr/doc/mbr/README explains it all. The documentation in /usr/doc/lilo can also help. Since the user says he can't boot even from floppy, he may need the text here. This extract is from /usr/doc/mbr/README: == 4. The boot process ~~~ When the MBR is first loaded it waits for a configurable length of time, monitoring the keyboard, for key presses. If the MBR detects a key press, it will interrupt the boot process, and display its prompt. Otherwise, it will load the first sector of the default partition, and execute it. If a disk error occours, the MBR will display its prompt. 4.1 The boot prompt ~~~ The boot prompt looks something like this: 14FA: This is the list of valid keys which may be pressed. This means that partitions 1, and 4 can be booted, also the first floppy drive (F). The A means that 'advanced' mode may be entered, in which any partition may be booted. The prompt for this mode looks like this: 1234F: The only other valid key which may be pressed is RETURN, which continues booting with the default partition. == -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Unsolicited email advertisements are not welcome; any person sending such will be invoiced for telephone time used in downloading together with a £25 administration charge. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- ` Aaron Walker Work: Site: http://www.iconmedia.com Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Personal: Site: http://www.iconmedia.com/aaron Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] `` -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: 3FA ???
Aaron Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : I just installed Debian 1.3.1 on my 486 w/4MB RAM. I made Debian hard : drive bootable because it's the only drive in the system. When I : rebooted, I got this message: : : 3FA: : : This is all it says. Even when I try to boot off my boot disk, it says : the same message. Please help. Thanks. /usr/doc/mbr/README explains it all. The documentation in /usr/doc/lilo can also help. E.- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
3FA ???
I just installed Debian 1.3.1 on my 486 w/4MB RAM. I made Debian hard drive bootable because it's the only drive in the system. When I rebooted, I got this message: 3FA: This is all it says. Even when I try to boot off my boot disk, it says the same message. Please help. Thanks. -- ` Aaron Walker Work: Site: http://www.iconmedia.com Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Personal: Site: http://www.iconmedia.com/aaron Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] `` -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: 3FA: ???
Run liloconfig, and answer the questions it asks you appropriately. Is this the right program? all three questions are yes/no types, rather than allowing me to change them. It wants to use /dev/hda3, /, for boot, and has no option to change to /dev/hda1. rick -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: 3FA: ???
Run liloconfig, and answer the questions it asks you appropriately. Is this the right program? all three questions are yes/no types, rather than allowing me to change them. It wants to use /dev/hda3, /, for boot, and has no option to change to /dev/hda1. I took a look at it, and it indeed assumes that if you want to boot off linux partition, then you want it to be /. You may want to submit a bug against lilo. Your only option is to edit /etc/lilo.conf and make it something like this: boot=/dev/hda root=/dev/hda3 install=/boot/boot.b read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux Then you should run lilo and reboot Note that this will install lilo into MBR. If you don't want to do that, and want to leave the debian mbr block in there (the thing that produces 123FA at times), you can take a look at /usr/sbin/liloconfig (perl script) and see the weird ways it handles it :-). Also, see /usr/doc/mbr. However, I don't see a reason debian does this anyway, I was once told that the reason is because mbr is safer than lilo. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: 3FA: ???
Hello , While installing Debian , I come across the same situation. But I get :4Fa .I guess it is due to the installation script when it tries to make Linux bootable from harddisk . I corrected it through lilo.conf and then I run lilo . By doing so I get what I want . I set the delay to 200 .so boot map(?) will look for left space . but if i press left space during the booting (continuously) , I get the 4FA: and then by pressing Enter I get LILO waiting as it should do . I do not get the same problem when I do not ask for linux to be made bootable from the harddisk during installation and then do it manually later . So i guess it is due to installation script . However I have not checked the source code and hence I am not sure about it . Regards Faiz ul Haque Zeya [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Rick Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Saturday, December 06, 1997 3:12 PM Subject: Re: 3FA: ??? Run liloconfig, and answer the questions it asks you appropriately. Is this the right program? all three questions are yes/no types, rather than allowing me to change them. It wants to use /dev/hda3, /, for boot, and has no option to change to /dev/hda1. rick -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: 3FA: ???
I always get 4FA:, but only if I hit Left Shift BEFORE the lilo prompt appears. But if I hit enter at the 4FA: prompt, the lilo prompt appears. If I hit shift after LILO: appears, everythings is normal. I always assumed this was a bios thing, but I have absolutely no idea of the real cause. Carl [EMAIL PROTECTED] One must imagine Sysiphus happy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: 3FA: ???
On Sat, 6 Dec 1997, Carl Mummert wrote: I always get 4FA:, but only if I hit Left Shift BEFORE the lilo prompt appears. But if I hit enter at the 4FA: prompt, the lilo prompt appears. If I hit shift after LILO: appears, everythings is normal. I always assumed this was a bios thing, but I have absolutely no idea of the real cause. I think is because lilo.conf has been misconfigured. Mine was set up boot=/dev/hda1 When I changed it to the correct boot=/dev/hda The weird stuff quit. Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
3FA: ???
I've seen the 1FA business before, but now that I've managed to move my file system over to my new drive, and lilo'd it, I get a 3FA: after the hardware check. The key sequence A1 (i think) will get me to LILO, which will boot if left alone. I checked and I'm not touching the keys as it boots. /hda1 is /boot, which contains the kernel, and /hda3 is /, which is well past 1024 sectors. How do I get rid of this? It would be nice to go back to being able to boot without intervention :) rick -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: 3FA: ???
I've seen the 1FA business before, but now that I've managed to move my file system over to my new drive, and lilo'd it, I get a 3FA: after the hardware check. The key sequence A1 (i think) will get me to LILO, which will boot if left alone. I checked and I'm not touching the keys as it boots. /hda1 is /boot, which contains the kernel, and /hda3 is /, which is well past 1024 sectors. How do I get rid of this? It would be nice to go back to being able to boot without intervention :) Run liloconfig, and answer the questions it asks you appropriately. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
