From: John Granieri (granieri@graphics.cis.upenn.edu)
Date: 04/15/93 

From: granieri@graphics.cis.upenn.edu (John Granieri)
Subject: Re: FAQ? Booting MSDOS from partition 1 fails
Date: 15 Apr 1993 14:00:29 GMT

In article <DAG.H.WANVIK.93Apr14234009@grim.kvatro.no>
Dag.H.Wanvik@kvatro.no (Dag H. Wanvik) writes:

   /dev/hda:

           C: 1 active MSDOS
              2 Linux ex2fs 3 Linux ex2fs

   I then reinstalled MSDOS on partition 1, which first made me
   I then reinstallereformat
   partition 1 and then reinstalled, successfully, I was told by MSDOS
   setup :-(. I can mount the MSDOS partition under Linux, but MSDOS
   fails to boot from the harddisk. The MSDOS filesystem is OK, as I
   can 'dir' it when booting MSDOS from floppy.

   Somebody said MSDOS is touchy and needs to be installed *before*
   any Unix(Linux) on the other primary partitions.

   Is is the MBR (master boot record) on the disk which is the
   problem?

   When I try to boot, the BIOS tells me "missing operating system".

   Thanks,

   Dag -- Dag H. Wanvik, Phone: +47 7 520090 KVATRO AS, Pirsenteret,
   Fax: +47 7 520140 N-7005 Trondheim, NORWAY E-mail:
   dag.h.wanvik@kvatro.no