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Red Hat 5.1 installation won't boot off Hard Drive?

Red Hat 5.1 installation won't boot off Hard Drive?

Post by Joe Befum » Mon, 19 Oct 1998 04:00:00



I'm a relative beginner at LINUX, however, I have installed it twice before
(once on a laptop) with no problems, so I don't think I did anything totally
dumb.  Followed the book, installed on a fresh system, told it to install
the loader on the Master boot record.  However, when I try to start the
system, I get the following message:

Verifying DMI Pool Data
Not Found on any [active partition] in HDD
Disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter

When I insert the rescue disk, the system boots fine.  Everything else
appears to work, so I'm not about to muck around with it until I'm sure I
know what I'm doing, but I would like to know if I screwed something up, or
if this is a know problem.  Hints on how to fix it would also be welcome 8^)

FWIW, this is a CTX box, AMD 300 CPU, 6.6gig hard drive.  Everything else is
pretty much plain vanilla.

Installation is Red Hat 5.1

Thanks.

Joe

 
 
 
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Red Hat 5.1 installation won't boot off Hard Drive?

Post by Allen Won » Mon, 19 Oct 1998 04:00:00


Joe,

    I believe that you need to use fdisk and activate the boot partition on
your hard drive.


> I'm a relative beginner at LINUX, however, I have installed it twice before
> (once on a laptop) with no problems, so I don't think I did anything totally
> dumb.  Followed the book, installed on a fresh system, told it to install
> the loader on the Master boot record.  However, when I try to start the
> system, I get the following message:

> Verifying DMI Pool Data
> Not Found on any [active partition] in HDD
> Disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter

> When I insert the rescue disk, the system boots fine.  Everything else
> appears to work, so I'm not about to muck around with it until I'm sure I
> know what I'm doing, but I would like to know if I screwed something up, or
> if this is a know problem.  Hints on how to fix it would also be welcome 8^)

> FWIW, this is a CTX box, AMD 300 CPU, 6.6gig hard drive.  Everything else is
> pretty much plain vanilla.

> Installation is Red Hat 5.1

> Thanks.

> Joe


 
 
 
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