[TriLUG] new AMD system - solved sorta

[Greg Brown]

Thanks everyone for the assistance with this one.  It appears my hard-drive 
is bad.  Once I finally gained access to the bios I found the hard-drive was 
secondary, not primary, on it's IDE chain so I changed the jumper and it 
showed up as primary -but the problem stays.. I can load the OS but the 
computer refuses to boot from the disk (error: Missing Operating System).  I 
swapped the disk and the computer tries to boot off the other disk (but fails 
eventually - but that's because OS/2 warp is loaded on that one and I don't 
think Warp agrees with AMD).

So.. until I get a new drive I have a mighty-fine diskless AMD system.

Greg


On Tuesday 26 February 2002 10:18 am, you wrote:
> Gateway Mainboards:
> F1
> TAB to clear the Gateway banner at boot.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gregbrown at mindspring.com [mailto:gregbrown at mindspring.com]
> Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 9:49 PM
> To: trilug at trilug.org
> Subject: [TriLUG] new AMD system - won't boot
>
>
> I am attemping to install RH 7.1 on a 1.4 ghz AMD system, the components of
> which I purchased at the Raleigh computer show.  The motherboard turns out
> to be a gateway (does anyone know the key to smash to get to the BIOS
> setup????) and I loaded the system up with 500 megs of ram and a 20 gig HD.
>
> I can install RH 7.1 from the CDs (but I can't configure X - but that's
> another problem).  When the installation is complete I can remove the 2nd
> CD from the tray, reboot, and the system comes up and says "Missing
> Operating System".  Any ideas what could be causing this?  Any pointers?
>
> Greg
>
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