From: wto@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (William T. O Connell) Subject: Re: Linux Boot Problem Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1993 00:21:50 GMT
In article <93038.182936EXG106@psuvm.psu.edu> <EXG106@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>Organization: Penn State University
>Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1993 01:38:33 EST
>From: <EXG106@psuvm.psu.edu>
>Message-ID: <93038.013833EXG106@psuvm.psu.edu>
>Newsgroups: alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
>Subject: Linux Boot problem
>
>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've installed Linux from the Installation disks, used fdisk to give it a maste
>r boot record, I set everything in Linux to recognize the correct partition as
>the boot partition, and it still gave me the error. I then formatted the entir
>e disk as an MSDOS system disk, and it booted up MSDOS fine. I then deleted th
>e MSDOS partition and created Linux partitions, and reinstalled Linux. I STILL
> get the same error.
>If I boot from a floppy, then I can access the Linux drive without any problem;
> but the Hard Drive REFUSES to boot due to this MISSING OPERATING SYSTEM error.
>
>Does anyone have any idea what the problem is? I cannot seem to make it boot f
>rom the HD no matter what I do with Linux.
I might not understand your problem correctly, but you said when you boot
off a floppy, you can access your linux partitions, but when you boot off
the disk, you get a MISSING OPERATING SYSTEM. This would happen if
LILO (or some other booting program) was not installed on your disk. If
this is the case (and since you do not have MSDOS installed on it) this
error would be expected.
If LILO is installed, are you sure it was installed correctly.
- Bill O'Connell