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From: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De>
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Subject: Re: 'no operating system' after 2.2 install on P6
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.970405145340.3179B-100000@localhost> from Rob Hartill at "Apr 5, 97 03:00:36 pm"
To: robh@imdb.com (Rob Hartill)
Date: Sat, 5 Apr 1997 22:31:01 +0200 (MET DST)
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Hi,

> I'm trying to help someone install 2.2 onto some remote (from me)
> machines and he's hit this problem... after doing a minimal install on new
> hardware (4 separate P6s) the machines fail to boot from the harddisk
> and report the 'no operating system' error.
> 
> Botting from the floppy and then issuing sd(0,a)/kernel brings the
> machines up but they won't boot for that disk.
> 

Seems the boot blocks were not written to the drive. Use fdisk(8) or/and
have a look at the handbook 19.2

Wolfgang