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Misssing operating system

donClon · 2003-04-13 21:12:53

hey guys.. having a problem booting up my old linux computer and was wondering could someone help...the problem is that i havent booted up my maching in a few months and well i always needed a boot disk to start it...the disk has gone missing and when i load up the machine i get an error at the start saying "Missing…

13-04-2003 9:12pm

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donClon

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hey guys.. having a problem booting up my old linux computer and was wondering could someone help...the problem is that i havent booted up my maching in a few months and well i always needed a boot disk to start it...the disk has gone missing and when i load up the machine i get an error at the start saying "Missing operating system"...the machine is running red hat 6.0 and noting else and i was wondering did any one know where i could download something to give it a little kick or some way around it..all help would be appreciated.thanks.

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#2 13-04-2003 9:18pm

flamegrill

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Boot from the redhat cd and run the recovery section.

That should help ya get the old install booted.

Paul

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#3 13-04-2003 9:26pm

donClon

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no go.. dont have the cd any more...

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#4 13-04-2003 9:52pm

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Earliest Red Hat I have is 6.2 I'm afraid, so I can't help you. However if you ask on ILUG I'm sure someone will be able to copy and post a bootdisk for you. In fact, you should be able to find one on Google if you have a poke around.

HTH,
adam

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#5 13-04-2003 11:04pm

Zaltais

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A few links:

Bootdisk Image

Rescue Disk Image

RaWrite - For converting disk images to actual files on a floopy dis in Windows [MS-DOS]

RaWrite Documentation - so you're not totally stranded

I'm assuming you're currently using a Windows machine - hence RaWrite as opposed to FIPS.

The above only totals about 3MB - and you should only need either the Rescue Disk or the Bootdisk - it depends on if you need to repair the bootloader, or just want to boot the machine up.

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Forgot to mention that these are links directly into ESAT's FTP mirror of the relevant files for the RedHat 6.0 OS as they would have appeared on the CD.
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#6 14-04-2003 12:00am

donClon

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the boot file just seems to be a byte or 2 too big to fit on a floppy..had the same problem with previous files i tried downloading

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#7 14-04-2003 12:29am

donClon

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ok filnally getting something out of it...but every time it trys to load initrd.img...it come up boot failed...just need a command to get in...

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