From: ghart@ems.cdc.com (Geoffrey Hart) Subject: Re: HELP, Cannot boot DOS on hard disk after LINUX installation Date: 1 Oct 1992 17:57:19 GMT
In article <1992Oct1.134658.6827@dgbt.doc.ca>, gilles@dgbt.doc.ca (Gilles Gagnon) writes:
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|> 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 had a similiar problem, except my system put up a message saying
"partition table corrupt". The cause was I had "activated" more than one
partition (I had made my Linux root partition "bootable"). Once I turned
the "active" flag off, everything worked ok. I use bootlin to bring Linux
up with no problems (it ignores the flag, apparently).
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