by This is the message I posted yesterday, it needs a little clarification
The part that was apparently unclear was whether I had used DOS fdiskQuote:>Hi,
> I seem to have gotten myself into a bit of a pickle. Just this
>morning I was happily using Linux in conjunction with a rather large
>DOS partition. I decided to reorganize my drive to allow a little
>more space for my favorite, Linux. So I backed up everything, fdisked
>away my partitions, and rebooted with a DOS 6 floppy. Ok, everything's
>fine so far. Then, once I had the imprtnt DOS files in place on the hard
>drive, I rebooted. Even though I had no disk in any drive I got a
>"Non system disk or disk error" and had to boot from the floppy again.
>I did an fdisk /MBR, but it did nothing. I'm pretty sure I did
>everything right with fdisk: making the primary partition, setting it
>active. I had LILO installed before and my guess is that's where the
>problem lies. I couldn't find anything in the FAQ that helped, though.
or Linux fdisk to create my new DOG partition. Well, I used DOS fdisk
as I was supposed to. Before I did the fdisk /MBR LILO was still
installed, and after the fdisk /MBR I got the "non system disk" error.
Sorry to be so unclear.
Thanks,
Kevin