missing operating system problem
Charlie McVeigh
cmcveigh at adelphia.net
Tue May 17 16:10:06 UTC 2005
On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 12:00 -0400, fedora-list-request at redhat.com wrote:
> I cannot get the system to boot up after installing fedora core 3. I
> just get the message "missing operating system"
>
> I have tried to install fedora core 3 (specifically FC3-x86_64) onto
> a
> Dell PowerEdge SC1420 SATA (Dual 64-bit Intel Xeon processor 3.2GHz
> with
> 1MB L2 cache) 160GB 7200rpm SATA hard drive.
>
> The machine is new. The disk was initially clean (no other OS
> installed)
> and in the installation procedure I chose to wipe all partitions. I
> followed all the defaults during formatting and installation. I don't
> want a dual boot system. Everything seemed to install smoothly with
> no
> warning messages. But it will not boot.
>
> Any ideas gratefully received.
>
I don't mean to post a wise ass answer - but, have you removed all
floppy disks and CD's ?
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