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Redhat 6.2 Missing Operating System
After I go through the installation of RH, onto an Ord drive with over 2 gigs of space on it, I reboot. Basically, the last screen asks me to remove the media, and press enter. Twice now, I ended up with the 'missing operating system' message in the upper left corner of my screen.
What causes this? A partition problem?
What do I need to have partitioned?
help
What causes this? A partition problem?
What do I need to have partitioned?
help
You can have LILO on the MBR of a floppy disk by specifying dev/fd0
It's useful if you have other OS like Windows too and later need to reinstall them.
It's useful if you have other OS like Windows too and later need to reinstall them.
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If you can't get into linux, but you know which partition you installed to, do the following to start linux. Boot into DOS mode with CD-ROM support. Goto the CD-ROM drive with the RH 6.2 CD in, and type "cd \dosutils". Then type "loadlin autoboot\vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 single" where /dev/hda1 is your root partition. Then edit the /etc/lilo.conf file and make sure the line that says boot= has "boot=/dev/hda" assuming your HD is the primary master. Save and exit. Now type "lilo" to install it to the MBR.