From: silly@ugcs.caltech.edu (Brad Threatt) Subject: Re: Linux Boot Problem Date: 8 Feb 1993 13:51:48 GMT
<EXG106@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>From: <EXG106@psuvm.psu.edu>
>I bought a 212 MB IDE Hard Drive straight from the manufacturer. It has never
>had ANYTHING on it. I decided to install Linux on it. Here is the problem:
>Whenever I try to boot from it, I get a MISSING OPERATING SYSTEM error.
I posted a similar message to this group, and have gotten mail from people with
the same problem. Basically, these are the things that I have done, to no
avail:
1) Reformatted the hard disk with MS/DOS 5.0 "format /s" [to install the
system files on the disk] (twice)
2) Reinstalled MS/DOS 5.0 using the installation disk.
3) Checked the boot sector with MS/DOS's "fdisk /mbr"
4) Checked that the DOS partition (the first one) had the bootable flag set.
5) Removed all partitions and created the DOS partition with DOS's fdisk.
As this is a recurring problem, it would be nice if we had more suggestions
of how to deal with it.
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