"Missing Operating System" (vmware)

tearinox · 09-20-2003, 02:16 PM

I installed vmware and everything booted up well. Then i did fdsik and created a 4 gig virtual drive. Fdisk told me to restart so i did. When i start up the virtual drive again... it says
"Missing Operating System"

does anyone know how to get past this? thx in advance

speter · 09-20-2003, 02:54 PM

Do you have a CD in the drive (or a CD image captured by the VM)?

Steve

tearinox · 09-20-2003, 03:23 PM

yes, i have win98 SE cd in the drive...

Electro · 09-20-2003, 04:42 PM

Just like any other computer system. You need to set the BIOS to boot from the setup disk or in your case the CD-ROM.

tearinox · 09-20-2003, 05:24 PM

well it does boot from the cd rom the first time... but after i went into fdisk and created a primary drive. It wouldn't even start the bios saying "missing operating system" any ideas? i appreciate the help

tearinox · 10-05-2003, 09:24 PM

ahh i got it fixed, i needed to put in a bootable floppy instead of a bootable cd.. wierd how computers play wit ya sometimes

Electro · 10-07-2003, 07:24 PM

VMware can boot from CD-ROM. You need to go in its bios and change the order of boot devices.

DJGCrusader · 08-11-2007, 07:46 PM

well i had the same problem with Ubuntu. uhm do u have a cd that u made that u can boot from? cuz thats wat I did and I went back to thepartition editor andput a boot flag on my Windows Xp partition. lol my problemnow is to get my partial linux install off my computer so i can try it again.