Did you toggle the bootable flag for you main (/) partition ? Try that,
it's the 'a' option in fdisk...
Karel
On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, Jonathan Sprague wrote:
> Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 16:40:07 -0500
> From: Jonathan Sprague <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Corrigan, Brian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: linux newbie list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re:
>
> Corrigan, Brian wrote:
> >
> > * I keep getting a NO OPERATING SYSTEM found message when I try and
> > boot RH5 (MAnhattan) IVe installed lilo on the MBR of /dev/hda and I am
> > partitioned as follows...... hda1:100mb swap hda2:4100mb main
> > partition...... HELP! why wont if find LILO
>
> Don't have much to go on but;
> It sounds like maybe a hardware problem.
> Can you boot into Linux with a boot disk?
> What does your lilo.conf look like?
> Usually I've created the first partition to be the / and the swap goes
> at the end. Is the / partition made active?
> Here's my fdisk for my server, I first did "m for help"
> notice "a toggle a bootable flag", maybe your partition wasn't made
> bootable?
> a toggle a bootable flag
> b edit bsd disklabel
> c toggle the dos compatibility flag
> d delete a partition
> l list known partition types
> m print this menu
> n add a new partition
> p print the partition table
> q quit without saving changes
> t change a partition's system id
> u change display/entry units
> v verify the partition table
> w write table to disk and exit
> x extra functionality (experts only)
>
> Command (m for help): p
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 15 heads, 56 sectors, 989 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 840 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 1 1 965 405272 83 Linux native
> /dev/hda2 966 966 989 10080 82 Linux swap
>
> Command (m for help):
>
>
Karel Bemelmans, Narfum Inc.
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