Actually, you need to just "low level" the drive, set the drive back to 0(zero)'s. I had that problem and this fixed it.
I use BCWipe. www.jetico.com Free for home use. -----Original Message----- From: Greg Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 11:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [TriLUG] new AMD system - solved sorta 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
