I was mistaken, it is 1FA. I am not sure how to enter 1. The exact prompt is
1FA: When I press a key I get nothing. When I press enter, I get another prompt: 1FA:1FA: Is there a special way to enter it ? > -----Original Message----- > From: Ashley Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 03, 1999 6:18 PM > To: Paul McHale; Patrick Olson > Cc: debian-user > Subject: RE: boot from hd (was RE: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?) > > > On Fri, 03 Sep 1999, Paul McHale wrote: > > Thanks for the help ! I'll give this a try. When I boot I get > 1F0 in the > > upper left part of the screen. I think this is also the address of the > > CDROM drive. Probably coincidence. > > Actually the 1F0 is a prompt provided by the mbr package that > replaces the master boot record of your harddrive. If I remember > correctly 1 boots the first partition, F boots floppy A, and 0 allows > selection of booting from any partition 1-4 regardless of their > active setting. > > -- > Ashley Clark >
