From: gilles@dgbt.doc.ca (Gilles Gagnon) Subject: HELP, Cannot boot DOS on hard disk after LINUX installation Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 13:46:58 GMT
Hello LINUX world,
Thanks for the nice FREE port of the un*x operating system on the 386+
platform. I do not consider myself a hacker but LINUX will help me a
lot into learning the way un*x works at the (user|root|sysadmin|...) level.
I have successfully installed the SLS distribution of LINUX on my 386sx PC
while leaving a partition available for MS-DOS (/dev/hda1). After I installed
MS-DOS 5.0 on drive C: I wanted to boot it but nothing happened. I got the
power-on self tests and then silence, dead, not even a single message.
I can boot either LINUX or MS-DOS from floppies but MS-DOS will not boot
from the hard disk. I have tried the same on another PC, same results, drive
C: won't boot.
Would it be possible that LINUX put some information on the hard drive that
makes a DOS partition unbootable? If so, is there a cure to the problem and
what should I do?
Many thanks in advance.
Configuration:
386sx 16MHz
Phoenix 386 BIOS V1.01
5MB RAM (1MB (640KB base + shadow BIOS + some EMM) + 4MB extended)
387sx
Seagate ST-08 IDE+Floppy controller
Seagate ST3144A Hard drive
/dev/hda1 15MB DOS partition set active
/dev/hda2 50MB LINUX system partition
/dev/hda3 50MB LINUX user partition
/dev/hda4 10MB LINUX swap partition
/dev/fd0 is a 3.5" 1.44MB floppy
/dev/fd1 is a 5.25" 360KB floppy
For more details do not hesitate to contact me.
Many thanks again (I hope there is a fix to the problem)
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