Re: Boot Problem after Install

From: Dave Burton (dave146_at_burtonsys.com)
Date: 08/30/04 

Date: 29 Aug 2004 19:24:58 -0700

"Operating System not found" can be caused by no partition being
marked "active" (bootable) in the partition table. Display the
partition table with Linux "fdisk -l /dev/hda" (or similar) and
see if one of the partitions is marked with an asterisk in the
"boot" column. If no partition is active, then use fdisk's "a"
command to mark the desired boot partition bootable/active.

-Dave

charles_hans@yahoo.com (Charles) wrote in message news:<28bd42c.0408290555.248dd14e@posting.google.com>...
> I made a boot diskette using mkbootdisk --device /dev/hd0 xxxxxxxxx
> (version) and now I can boot Fedora. But don't know how to fix the
> problem and boot from the hard drive.
>
> Charles
> 8/29
>
> charles_hans@yahoo.com (Charles) wrote in message news:<28bd42c.0408271646.2b0e2820@posting.google.com>...
> > I installed Fedora using the CD in the book "Red Hat Fedora 2".
> > Everything went normal except that the installation program did not
> > prompt to ask if I wanted to make a Boot disk as the book described.
> > After re-boot I got the message "Operating System not found".

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