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Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] RH Linux 5.2 will not boot

Posted by Ray Menke
on 2000-09-03 13:26:40 UTC
On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 01:47:53AM -0000, don.pat.brock@... wrote:

> fine but will not boot from the HD or a floppy. I keep getting a
> bios message that no ***active*** partition was found on the HDD. I

> work around to this problem? Linux fdisk shows 4 partitions all
You need to make the boot partition active. Run fdisk again and make
one of the partitions active. If you do "fdisk -l", it will show a
listing of your partitions. One of them should have an asterisk under
the column headed boot. (I just checked this on my RH5.2 system.) Hope
this helps.

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Ray Menke RnDMenke@...
Linux/Mutt 0.95.3i/emacs/sendmail/fetchmail from the tty console.

Discussion Thread

don.pat.brock@p... 2000-09-02 18:47:59 UTC RH Linux 5.2 will not boot Tim Goldstein 2000-09-02 19:57:30 UTC RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] RH Linux 5.2 will not boot don.pat.brock@p... 2000-09-02 22:41:06 UTC Re: RH Linux 5.2 will not boot Ray Menke 2000-09-03 13:26:40 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] RH Linux 5.2 will not boot don.pat.brock@p... 2000-09-03 20:12:19 UTC Question for Ray Menke Ray Menke 2000-09-05 09:27:59 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Question for Ray Menke