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Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 16:16:40 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: John Flickinger <jflick@phenixcable.net>
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Subject: Re: Boot error,"operating system not found"
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On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, John Flickinger wrote:

> I have 2.2.6 installed on a PII233, with IDE hard drive (4.3G), and have
> win95 as
>  the second OS. During bootup, I frequently get a message"Operating
> System Not Found".
>  Needless to say, my heart skips a beat. I have always been able to get
> it to work by turning off the power, then rebooting. I may get the
> "Operating System Not Found" message two or three times, then the  usual
> F1-F3 message comes up, and I proceed as normal. I am running the boot
> manager that came with the Walnut Creek CD, . Any Suggestions? Thanks a
> lot.

Your BIOS is unhappy or the active partition bit isn't set properly.  Use
DOS FDISK and make sure the active partition bit is set to one of the
partitions.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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