On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, Stan Brown wrote:
> I was in the middle of a 1.2 to 2.0 upfrade this weekend when my CDROM
> decided to go toes up. dselect bailed on me and left things in an
> unstable stsate. I amaged to get it booted into single user and was
> well on my way to getting things straightend out, but somehow I wne
> awry.
>
> I had LILO on the hard disk, and now all the machine will do is come up
> with 1FA: as a prompt. I wnat to boot the machien from the rescue disk,
> but I can;t seem to get it to look at tha floppy, withou first
> disconecting the heard drive.
No problem, 1FA: is the "mbr" boot loader. pressing F will boot your
floppy drive.. (1, F and A are options, the : denotes a prompt)
1 boots from your first partition,
A shows the rest of the partitions, i.e. "1234F:"
and F boots from your Floppy drive.
Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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