On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 11:46:15AM +1030, Mark Phillips wrote: > > My friend's Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop won't boot. Previously it has > booted fine, but currently all it comes up with is a > > 3FA: > > prompt. Hitting return just causes this prompt to repeat itself. It > doesn't even seem to get to lilo. I can't think what is wrong, and I > couldn't find anything in the archives on it. > > Any ideas anyone?
You installed lilo into the MBR - There was a decision to let the debian MBR to show up always not only on request as it did for slink because its a potential security risk when trying to only let users boot specific operating systems on specific partitions as you can override this within the MBR. Flo -- Florian Lohoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] +49-5201-669912 Why is it called "common sense" when nobody seems to have any?