[plug] lilo error

[Rob Hall]

Sounds like there is no active boot partition.

Regards,


Rob Hall


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-plug at linux.org.au [mailto:owner-plug at linux.org.au]On Behalf
> Of Ryan Winn
> Sent: 03 March 1999 12:23
> To: plug at linux.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] lilo error
> 
> 
> hiya' david,
> 
> >Could you send EXACTLY what you see on the screen. By the sounds of 
> >it there is no active partition on the HDD or no master boot record. 
> >Either of these two will result in a BIOS message similar to
> >"no boot device - press any key to restart".
> 
> no it is not a bios error it just says 
> "press any key to restart"
> at the top left habd corner of the screen after the bios has detected the
> harddrives and everything.
> 
> cheers ryan
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