missing operating system problem

[Jim Cornette]

Mark A. Beaumont wrote:
> Many thanks for people's suggestions so far...
> 
> Yes - I have checked that there are no other disks causing a problem. I 
> have played with the ordering of boot drives; I have run the fedora 
> installation cd in rescue mode. I played with all possible permutations 
> of how to set up the boot configuration, but everything gave the same 
> result. The trouble is I don't really know what I'm looking for. The 
> grub.conf looks like others I've seen while trawling through Google, so 
> I assume it is OK.
> 
> I will have a go with the suggestion below tomorrow:-
> 

I had troubles before using drives that were used fro the first time 
before. I set the /boot partition as active and things worked alright. 
Do you have a partition set as active on the primary disk?

This seemed to be a BIOS expectation and not one of the operating system 
being installed.

Jim

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