[TriLUG] new AMD system - solved sorta

[Craig Duncan]

Since you changed the disk to master IDE active from slave, chances are you 
need only reinstall and that the disk is not bad.

On Tuesday 26 February 2002 11:37 am, you wrote:
> 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
>
> On Tuesday 26 February 2002 10:18 am, you wrote:
> > Gateway Mainboards:
> > F1
> > TAB to clear the Gateway banner at boot.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: gregbrown at mindspring.com [mailto:gregbrown at mindspring.com]
> > Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 9:49 PM
> > To: trilug at trilug.org
> > Subject: [TriLUG] new AMD system - won't boot
> >
> >
> > I am attemping to install RH 7.1 on a 1.4 ghz AMD system, the components
> > of which I purchased at the Raleigh computer show.  The motherboard turns
> > out to be a gateway (does anyone know the key to smash to get to the BIOS
> > setup????) and I loaded the system up with 500 megs of ram and a 20 gig
> > HD.
> >
> > I can install RH 7.1 from the CDs (but I can't configure X - but that's
> > another problem).  When the installation is complete I can remove the 2nd
> > CD from the tray, reboot, and the system comes up and says "Missing
> > Operating System".  Any ideas what could be causing this?  Any pointers?
> >
> > Greg
> >
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