Re: 1FA: problem still in hamm disks

1998-10-19 Thread Avery Pennarun
On Sat, Oct 17, 1998 at 09:49:54AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > Quoting Tom Lees ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > While I'm at it, *PLEASE* drop the dependency of lilo on mbr. I don't want > > a new mbr eg if I want to install LILO to use on a floppy ONLY (I use > > GRUB on my HD). Change it to Recommend

Re: 1FA: problem still in hamm disks

1998-10-18 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ben Gertzfield) wrote on 16.10.98 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > "Brent" == Brent Fulgham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Brent> I'd like to chime in -- It's a real annoyance that the base > Brent> disks don't set up lilo to let you boot into multiple > Brent> oper

Re: 1FA: problem still in hamm disks

1998-10-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Oct 17, 1998 at 09:49:54AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > Quoting Tom Lees ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > While I'm at it, *PLEASE* drop the dependency of lilo on mbr. I don't want > > a new mbr eg if I want to install LILO to use on a floppy ONLY (I use > > GRUB on my HD). Change it to Recommends

Re: 1FA: problem still in hamm disks

1998-10-17 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Tom Lees ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > While I'm at it, *PLEASE* drop the dependency of lilo on mbr. I don't want > a new mbr eg if I want to install LILO to use on a floppy ONLY (I use > GRUB on my HD). Change it to Recommends. mbr being a high priority and/or > essential (can't remember if it is

Re: 1FA: problem still in hamm disks

1998-10-17 Thread Tom Lees
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 12:34:09PM -0700, Ben Gertzfield wrote: > > "Brent" == Brent Fulgham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Brent> I'd like to chime in -- It's a real annoyance that the base > Brent> disks don't set up lilo to let you boot into multiple > Brent> operating systems.

Re: 1FA: problem still in hamm disks

1998-10-16 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Brent" == Brent Fulgham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brent> I'd like to chime in -- It's a real annoyance that the base Brent> disks don't set up lilo to let you boot into multiple Brent> operating systems. Couldn't it ask if you want to Brent> dual-boot with windows, or wha

Re: 1FA: problem still in hamm disks

1998-10-16 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Enrique" == Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Enrique> Currently, that partition is marked as bootable just Enrique> after installing LILO and "mbr" (first a dialog is Enrique> displayed asking the user if he wants it so, something Enrique> like "If you want the De

Re: 1FA: problem still in hamm disks

1998-10-16 Thread Martin Schulze
Brent Fulgham wrote: > I'd like to chime in -- > > It's a real annoyance that the base disks don't set up lilo to let you > boot into multiple operating systems. Couldn't it ask if you want to > dual-boot with windows, or whatever, and generate an appropriate lilo.conf > file? This would be nice

Re: 1FA: problem still in hamm disks

1998-10-16 Thread Brent Fulgham
average Joe New-User this is a large hurdle. -Brent -Original Message- From: Ben Gertzfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Duncan Thomson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; debian-devel@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, October 16, 1998 10:31 AM Subject

Re: 1FA: problem still in hamm disks

1998-10-16 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 10:11:05AM -0700, Ben Gertzfield wrote: > Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 09:18:23AM +, Duncan Thomson wrote: > > > i've seen postings about this before, but as yet no solution (either as > > > a message or in the boot disks)

Re: 1FA: problem still in hamm disks

1998-10-16 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 09:18:23AM +, Duncan Thomson wrote: > > i've seen postings about this before, but as yet no solution (either as > > a message or in the boot disks). > > > > when debian is made bootable from the hard disk on certain system

Re: 1FA: problem still in hamm disks

1998-10-16 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 09:18:23AM +, Duncan Thomson wrote: > i've seen postings about this before, but as yet no solution (either as > a message or in the boot disks). > > when debian is made bootable from the hard disk on certain systems, the > prompt 1FA: comes up, but the system will not b

1FA: problem still in hamm disks

1998-10-16 Thread Duncan Thomson
i've seen postings about this before, but as yet no solution (either as a message or in the boot disks). when debian is made bootable from the hard disk on certain systems, the prompt 1FA: comes up, but the system will not boot off partition 1. the disk controller is AHA-2940. any solutions t