I just downloaded the iso files, burned the CDs and installed
Slack into my hard drive, on the 3rd 10GB partition of a 45GB
hard drive, about 32GB in.

I booted from the CD, ran fdisk to create the root and swap
partitions and marked the Linux partition as the bootable
partition.

I then did a full install, everything went without a hitch.

However when I rebooted I get a "Missing Operating System" error.

Did I miss a step or is it still necessary to install the
bootable partition in the first 1024 cylinders?

Is there a way to make the machine boot from this partition?

Rob Steinmetz <rsteinmetz@mindspring.com> wrote:
> I just downloaded the iso files, burned the CDs and installed
> Slack into my hard drive, on the 3rd 10GB partition of a 45GB
> hard drive, about 32GB in.
>
> I booted from the CD, ran fdisk to create the root and swap
> partitions and marked the Linux partition as the bootable
> partition.
>
> I then did a full install, everything went without a hitch.
>
> However when I rebooted I get a "Missing Operating System" error.
>
> Did I miss a step or is it still necessary to install the
> bootable partition in the first 1024 cylinders?
>
> Is there a way to make the machine boot from this partition?

You went throught lilo configuration, right?

--
William Park, Open Geometry Consulting, <opengeometry@yahoo.ca>
Linux solution for data management and processing.

William Park wrote:

> Rob Steinmetz <rsteinmetz@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
>>I just downloaded the iso files, burned the CDs and installed
>>Slack into my hard drive, on the 3rd 10GB partition of a 45GB
>>hard drive, about 32GB in.
>>
>>I booted from the CD, ran fdisk to create the root and swap
>>partitions and marked the Linux partition as the bootable
>>partition.
>>
>>I then did a full install, everything went without a hitch.
>>
>>However when I rebooted I get a "Missing Operating System" error.
>>
>>Did I miss a step or is it still necessary to install the
>>bootable partition in the first 1024 cylinders?
>>
>>Is there a way to make the machine boot from this partition?
>
>
> You went throught lilo configuration, right?

I didn't get any specific question about lilo, but there is a
lilo.conf in the /etc directory and it looks right, although I
can't be sure.

What is the lilo config/install program and I'll run it again.
I can boot the Cd pretty easily.

Rob Steinmetz wrote:

> William Park wrote:
>
>> Rob Steinmetz <rsteinmetz@mindspring.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I just downloaded the iso files, burned the CDs and installed Slack
>>> into my hard drive, on the 3rd 10GB partition of a 45GB hard drive,
>>> about 32GB in.
>>>
>>> I booted from the CD, ran fdisk to create the root and swap
>>> partitions and marked the Linux partition as the bootable partition.
>>>
>>> I then did a full install, everything went without a hitch.
>>>
>>> However when I rebooted I get a "Missing Operating System" error.
>>>
>>> Did I miss a step or is it still necessary to install the bootable
>>> partition in the first 1024 cylinders?
>>>
>>> Is there a way to make the machine boot from this partition?
>>
>>
>>
>> You went throught lilo configuration, right?
>
>
> I didn't get any specific question about lilo, but there is a lilo.conf
> in the /etc directory and it looks right, although I can't be sure.
>
> What is the lilo config/install program and I'll run it again.
> I can boot the Cd pretty easily.
>
Booted from CD to /dev/hda3
ran /sbin/lilo got message
Added Linux
Added DOS *
rebooted,
"Missing Operating System"

On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 15:39:03 -0600, Rob Steinmetz
<rsteinmetz@mindspring.com> wrote:

>>> I didn't get any specific question about lilo, but there is a lilo.conf
>>> in the /etc directory and it looks right, although I can't be sure.
>>>
>>> What is the lilo config/install program and I'll run it again.
>>> I can boot the Cd pretty easily.
>>>
>>Booted from CD to /dev/hda3
>>ran /sbin/lilo got message
>> Added Linux
>> Added DOS *
>>rebooted,
>>"Missing Operating System"

Where did you tell LILO to install? Root (superblock) or MBR?

Since you have been able to log into your system using the CD, you can
run liloconfig again.

Brad

Rob Steinmetz <rsteinmetz@mindspring.com> wrote:
> >> You went throught lilo configuration, right?
> >
> >
> > I didn't get any specific question about lilo, but there is a lilo.conf
> > in the /etc directory and it looks right, although I can't be sure.
> >
> > What is the lilo config/install program and I'll run it again.
> > I can boot the Cd pretty easily.
> >
> Booted from CD to /dev/hda3
> ran /sbin/lilo got message
> Added Linux
> Added DOS *
> rebooted,
> "Missing Operating System"

When you say "/etc/lilo.conf", I take it you mean "/mnt/etc/lilo.conf"
which would be on your harddisk root partition. I that checks out, then
do
lilo -r /mnt

--
William Park, Open Geometry Consulting, <opengeometry@yahoo.ca>
Linux solution for data management and processing.

I think there is a bug in the 9.1 versions lilo.
I had to use the MBR, to boot. Same thing booting
off of the super block, "no os found".
Lilo did complain about mismatched geometry's
during install on mine, used the -P fix option
to get it installed.
I miss my scsi drives, never a problem.

I hate it on MBR, ms tools kill boot tracks put there.
oh well, at least the cd boots to fix.
Robert

na wrote:

> I think there is a bug in the 9.1 versions lilo.
> I had to use the MBR, to boot. Same thing booting
> off of the super block, "no os found".
> Lilo did complain about mismatched geometry's
> during install on mine, used the -P fix option
> to get it installed.
> I miss my scsi drives, never a problem.
>
> I hate it on MBR, ms tools kill boot tracks put there.
> oh well, at least the cd boots to fix.
> Robert
>
I got it to work by selecting MBR. Installing on superblock gave
no errors and did not complain about the geometry.

Is it supposed to work on Superblock? I for one woudl sure
prefer it.

William Park wrote:

> Rob Steinmetz <rsteinmetz@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
>>>>You went throught lilo configuration, right?
>>>
>>>
>>>I didn't get any specific question about lilo, but there is a lilo.conf
>>>in the /etc directory and it looks right, although I can't be sure.
>>>
>>>What is the lilo config/install program and I'll run it again.
>>>I can boot the Cd pretty easily.
>>>
>>
>>Booted from CD to /dev/hda3
>>ran /sbin/lilo got message
>> Added Linux
>> Added DOS *
>>rebooted,
>>"Missing Operating System"
>
>
> When you say "/etc/lilo.conf", I take it you mean "/mnt/etc/lilo.conf"
> which would be on your harddisk root partition.
No I meant /etc/lilo.conf, I can boot to the hard drive from the
CD. boot: bare.1 root=/dev/hda3 .........

> I that checks out, then
> do
> lilo -r /mnt
>

Brad Clarke wrote:

> On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 15:39:03 -0600, Rob Steinmetz
> <rsteinmetz@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
>
>>>>I didn't get any specific question about lilo, but there is a lilo.conf
>>>>in the /etc directory and it looks right, although I can't be sure.
>>>>
>>>>What is the lilo config/install program and I'll run it again.
>>>>I can boot the Cd pretty easily.
>>>>
>>>
>>>Booted from CD to /dev/hda3
>>>ran /sbin/lilo got message
>>> Added Linux
>>> Added DOS *
>>>rebooted,
>>>"Missing Operating System"
>
>
> Where did you tell LILO to install? Root (superblock) or MBR?

I wanted to use superblock but it would not work.

I got it to work by selecting MBR. Installing on superblock gave
no errors. But didn't work.

> Since you have been able to log into your system using the CD, you can
> run liloconfig again.

I did that.

> Brad