Operating System Not Found

From: John S (praxis-j_at_videotron.ca)
Date: 09/28/04 

Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 17:50:37 -0400

After "googling" around for about an hour, I've still had little success
with setting up Fedora-Redhat (Core 2, which I downloaded in ISO mirrored
form a few days ago from the site). On startup, I keep getting the message
"Operating System Not Found".

>From what I've read, this problem could arise from not marking the main
partition as active (fdisk shows mine is so marked), or from Bios problems
(mine is pointing OK to the hard drive). The system has been installed on
the primary partition of the hard drive (the recovery disk has located it).

I am running this on an HP Pavilion 633 Mhz with 192 Meg RAM. Previously, I
had installed Windows 2000, and it worked fine on the hard drive (and the
computer).The primary Hard Drive is a 15 gig Western Digital, in LBA format
(according to the bios).

Any ideas ? Any thoughts appreciated.

John S (AKA frustrated)

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