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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Jeremy Sigmon <jsigmon@www.hsc.wvu.edu>
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Subject: Re: Missing Operating System
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On Sat, 9 Nov 1996, Jeremy Sigmon wrote:

> 
> I just installed SNAP2.2-1014 on my abckup server.  It has
> three IDE disks and a cdrom  all are detected and such, but after
> the install when I try and boot up I get :
> Missing Operating System...

Boot with a DOS floppy and run FDISK and set the active partition to a
partition on your first disk.

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