When you boot an intel based PC sometimes you experience a strange boot message 1FA:.

Your boot loader is trying to give you options, very cryptically.

(1, F and A are options, the : denotes a prompt). You get that prompt if it cannot find an active partition.

* 1 boots from your first partition.
* F boots from your Floppy drive.
* and A shows the rest of the partitions, i.e. "1234F:".

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