Re: RedHat Install on Vaio Z505CR/K fails - HELP!

[Archan Paul <kernelcoder@example.com>]

Hi,
may be none of the primary partitions are active partions. Make one of ur
primary partition as active partition and then boot the m/c. This kind of
error is caused when the loader can't locate the address of the boot sector
of the active partition.

good luck

Archan

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On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Antony Stace wrote:
> Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 14:19:40 +0900
> To: tlug@example.com
> From: Antony Stace <antony@example.com>
> Reply-To: tlug@example.com
> Subject: Re: RedHat Install on Vaio Z505CR/K fails - HELP!
> 
> Folks, 
> is the message "Missing Operating system" coming from LILO or some part
> of Windows which has refused to die?
> 
> Phil, 
> can you run fdisk at all and list the partition tables on the box and
> post them here
> 
> 
> Phil Cummins wrote:
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> >   I recently bought a Vaio Z505CR/K. It was quite a purchase for
> > me, so I checked to see what kind of problems Linux people experienced
> > with the Z505 series and found that, aside from the difficulty of
> > getting the USB floppy to work, they generaly seem to be very Linux-
> > friendly.
> >   However, this CR/K is a new model. It's really nice in terms of
> > hardware. But I am having a terrible time getting Redhat Linux 7.0
> > installed...
> >   I have copied the bootnet.img to a floppy and can boot off that
> > and start the installation off my local network. Everything gets
> > downloaded fine, even the X11 graphics test out OK. In fact, no
> > problems are encountered until I reboot.
> >   It simply will not boot linux. I have tried using lilo to install
> > to the disk's MBR and to the boot sector of the disk partition I
> installed
> > Linux on. When I reboot, I just get a blank screen with "Missing
> Operating
> > System". These are basically my only options with Lilo, aren't they?
> > In any case I am at this point pretty desparate for suggestions. Note,
> > however, that I can't boot off any rescue disk as yet, because it seems
> > that the kernel I boot from must be able to support the USB floppy (the
> > prepackaged rescue diskettes I've tried fail when they try to unpack
> > the root partition from the floppy, and I'm guessing this is the
> problem).
> > I guess I will start the process of creating my own boot disk for this,
> > but I am worried that this is not going to solve my problems...
> >    In any case, any suggestions will be gratefully appreciated.
> > 
> > -- Phil
> > 
> > P.S. I don't know if it's relevant, but it came with Win2k
> pre-installed,
> >      which I (happily) wiped in the course of the Linux install. Also,
> > unlike
> >      previous Z505's that seem to have a special, small partition
> reserved
> >      for hibernation purposes, this one only had two FAT32 partitions
> set
> >      up on its 20G disk.
> > 
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