Subject: Re: booting 1.4.1
To: Chris Jones <chris@cjones.org>
From: Dale Phillips <dp@lore.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/14/1999 07:31:19
Do you have an active partition set? 

 man fdisk

fdisk -a (will set active partiton) (usally this says NO OS or
the like)

or you may need just to load the boot code to block 0

fdisk -c  (will load boot block code)

read the man page so I don't steer you wrong.


Chris Jones wrote:
> 
> I just installed 1.4.1 on a new laptop, using the boot.fs floppy.  But
> the machine says, "Insert Boot-Disk and press any key" when I reboot
> it.  Did sysinst forget to do something?
> 
> I can load the bootstrap code off the floppy, and then boot the kernel
> from wd0 from there, FWIW.
> 
> Please let me know what info would be useful in figuring out what went
> wrong here.
> 
> Chris
> 
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> -----------------------------------------------------chris@cjones.org
> Chris Jones                                          cjones@honors.montana.edu
>            Mad scientist at large
> "Is this going to be a stand-up programming session, sir, or another bug hunt?"

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