problem loading os

bekaar · 05-04-2006, 05:26 PM

i have install the slackware 10.2 when it finsh the installation i've remoed the cd and press ctrl alt delete pc been restarted but after finshing reading the ram it say

Error loading operating system and im sure i have install cd1 and 2 anyidea ?

nadroj · 05-04-2006, 05:35 PM

did you make the partition bootable? if you have more than 1 hard drive, did you set the BIOS to boot to the hard drive with slackware on it?

jschiwal · 05-04-2006, 05:48 PM

nadroj is correct. That is the message you get if none of the drives are bootable. I wiped the hard drives of some 386 computers at work that we were getting rid of, and that is the message displayed after I wiped NT from the drives.

nathanhillinbl · 05-04-2006, 06:15 PM

I have also gotten that when the ide cable was loose

bekaar · 05-05-2006, 02:36 AM

thanks for replay i've put hda1 linux swap and hda2 bootable
i enter the setting and let the system boot from the harddrive its given the same msg.

do i need to make linux swap if im not useing 2 operating system?

do i need to install them all if i did not make a bootable for hda2?

bekaar · 05-05-2006, 02:36 AM

thanks for replay i've put hda1 linux swap and hda2 bootable
i enter the setting and let the system boot from the harddrive its given the same msg.

do i need to make linux swap if im not useing 2 operating system?

do i need to install them all if i did not make a bootable for hda2?

bekaar · 05-05-2006, 04:01 AM

how can i set the BIOS to boot hard drive to slackware

nadroj · 05-05-2006, 10:57 AM

which partition is the bootable one? hda2? just set the partition with slackware on it to bootable with fdisk/cfdisk; not the swap partition.

also, do you only have 1 hard disk? if so then the BIOS should default to this hard disk.. but if not then look around in the BIOS. there should be a startup or bootup priority menu or something similar. just set the second (if the cd drive is first)boot device to the hard drive with slackware on it.

bekaar · 05-05-2006, 11:49 AM

i'll do it now i think my misstake when i did the partation i have put the hda1 linux swap on bootable

ioerror · 05-05-2006, 12:28 PM

Quote:

did you make the partition bootable? if you have more than 1 hard drive, did you set the BIOS to boot to the hard drive with slackware on it?

The bootable flag is irrelevant, it is only used by DOS/Windows mbr code. None of my drives have this flag set. The default boot drive is set in the BIOS, and the code in the mbr reads the partition table.

Are you sure you installed lilo to the mbr? The default is to install to the root partition.

bekaar · 05-05-2006, 01:55 PM

how can i install the lilo to the mbr ?

ioerror · 05-05-2006, 02:22 PM

boot from the install cd, mount your root partition on, say, /mnt and do

Quote:

lilo -r /mnt -M /dev/hda mbr

At least, that's what I remember, I use grub these days, much easier.

bekaar · 05-05-2006, 03:37 PM

thanks alot by the way 1 week im working just to fix slackware hahaha