[TriLUG] new AMD system - solved sorta

[Jon Carnes]

You might want to make sure that your boot partition was marked active.  I
know that sometimes Disk Druid does not do so.  If the OS installs, I would
think the disk was good...

Jon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Brown" <gregbrown at mindspring.com>
To: <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 11:37 AM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] new AMD system - solved sorta


> Thanks everyone for the assistance with this one.  It appears my
hard-drive
> is bad.  Once I finally gained access to the bios I found the hard-drive
was
> secondary, not primary, on it's IDE chain so I changed the jumper and it
> showed up as primary -but the problem stays.. I can load the OS but the
> computer refuses to boot from the disk (error: Missing Operating System).
I
> swapped the disk and the computer tries to boot off the other disk (but
fails
> eventually - but that's because OS/2 warp is loaded on that one and I
don't
> think Warp agrees with AMD).
>
> So.. until I get a new drive I have a mighty-fine diskless AMD system.
>
> Greg
>