Re: Error loading operating System.

Dr. S.K. Singh (sks@cirg.up.nic.in)
Tue, 4 Aug 1998 15:47:55 +0530 (IST)

Today I repartitioned hdd with 1-500 cyl for Win-95 and 501 to 4340 for
Linux native and no swap. but problem is still there. Does RH not boot
without lilo when the linux partiotion is made an active one?. I also
tried fdik/mbr from dos prompt but without improvement.

With Kind Regards.

Sincerely Yours

Dr.S.K. Singh,

On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Jacob V T wrote:

>
> On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Dr. S.K. Singh wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> > I have installed RH 5.0 using a CD in a new Pentium II- 266 Mhz, 64 MB
> > RAM and 4 GB SCSI HDD. The disk was partitioned ito sda1-100Mb Linux swap,
> > sda2-500Mb DOS and rest as sda3 for Linux native. After successful
> > installation when machine reboots it says "Eorror Loading Operating
> > System". I installed twice using Lilo in MBR and in dev sda3. First it
> > gave 02 02.....
>
> When trying to install lilo on root and if lilo was previously
> installed on MBR, you should first remove liloboot code from MBR with the
> DOS command FDISK /MBR
> If again the boot code is beyond 1023 cylinders, the system BIOS can't
> pick up the boot code. For that
>
> Option1: Make the linux native partition the first partition.
>
> Option2: Use LOADLIN.EXE to boot linux from DOS partition and use CHOICE
> command to switch between the OS.
>
> Regards,
> Jacob V T.
>

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