On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 17:59:14 -0400,
John S <praxis-j@videotron.ca> wrote:
> Sorry if this is a "repeat" (also having trouble with the newsgroups) I have
> loaded the Fedora Core 2 ISO files from the Fedora-Redhat site, and have run
> into the error message above. After "Operating System Not Found ". I have
> verified that the bios is pointing to the hard drive, and that the boot
> partition was indeed active. The repair ISO disk verifies that the data is
> indeed on the hard drive.
>
> I have a 15 gig Western Digital hard drive, in LBA format. It is running an
> HP Pavillion 633 Khz with 192 megs of memory.
>
> Any help / insights would be appreciated.

Some BIOSs have an option for preventing the MBR from being
overwritten by malware, and no they can't tell malware from a
different MBR.

Check your BIOS settings, or install grub to the active
partition.

HTH,

Michael C.
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