Error Loading Operating System

cfugate · 06-01-2003, 03:38 PM

I recently installed RH9 on a system that has 4 IDE drives in it. I used HDA as the boot drive and created a boot partition first, followed by swap and root. However, after install it says "Error loading operating system".

However, it will boot off of the bootdisk that was created during the install just fine. Any idea what the problem is and how I can get it to boot from the drive?

Thanks,
Carl

jailbait · 06-01-2003, 06:25 PM

This sounds like a problem with lilo (or grub if you are using grub). Take a look at /etc/lilo.conf to see if it is set up correctly. Then run the lilo program.

cfugate · 06-01-2003, 07:18 PM

I am using grub and everything works ok...is there a way to reload grub into the MBR?

johnnyk · 06-01-2003, 08:27 PM

Check your hard disk is set up properly in your BIOS

jailbait · 06-01-2003, 08:59 PM

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I am using grub and everything works ok...is there a way to reload grub into the MBR?
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I have never used grub. Here is a link to a HOWTO for grub.
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+Win9x+Grub-HOWTO/

cfugate · 06-01-2003, 10:13 PM

Thanks for all your help. I did the following so I'm not sure which fixed it:

I. ran grub-install /dev/hda to reload it into the MBR

II. Found a setting in the bios that showed a boot order for the hard drives (Had no clue that was there) to /dev/hda

Thanks again,
Carl

fancypiper · 06-01-2003, 10:21 PM

Apparently you had chosen to not install the bootloader on install.