Since you changed the disk to master IDE active from slave, chances are you need only reinstall and that the disk is not bad.
On Tuesday 26 February 2002 11:37 am, you wrote: > Thanks everyone for the assistance with this one. It appears my hard-drive > is bad. Once I finally gained access to the bios I found the hard-drive > was secondary, not primary, on it's IDE chain so I changed the jumper and > it showed up as primary -but the problem stays.. I can load the OS but the > computer refuses to boot from the disk (error: Missing Operating System). > I swapped the disk and the computer tries to boot off the other disk (but > fails eventually - but that's because OS/2 warp is loaded on that one and I > don't think Warp agrees with AMD). > > So.. until I get a new drive I have a mighty-fine diskless AMD system. > > Greg > > On Tuesday 26 February 2002 10:18 am, you wrote: > > Gateway Mainboards: > > F1 > > TAB to clear the Gateway banner at boot. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 9:49 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [TriLUG] new AMD system - won't boot > > > > > > I am attemping to install RH 7.1 on a 1.4 ghz AMD system, the components > > of which I purchased at the Raleigh computer show. The motherboard turns > > out to be a gateway (does anyone know the key to smash to get to the BIOS > > setup????) and I loaded the system up with 500 megs of ram and a 20 gig > > HD. > > > > I can install RH 7.1 from the CDs (but I can't configure X - but that's > > another problem). When the installation is complete I can remove the 2nd > > CD from the tray, reboot, and the system comes up and says "Missing > > Operating System". Any ideas what could be causing this? Any pointers? > > > > Greg > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TriLUG mailing list > > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > > _______________________________________________ > > TriLUG mailing list > > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > > _______________________________________________ > TriLUG mailing list > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug
