Rob Steinmetz <rsteinmetz@mindspring.com> wrote:
> I just downloaded the iso files, burned the CDs and installed
> Slack into my hard drive, on the 3rd 10GB partition of a 45GB
> hard drive, about 32GB in.
>
> I booted from the CD, ran fdisk to create the root and swap
> partitions and marked the Linux partition as the bootable
> partition.
>
> I then did a full install, everything went without a hitch.
>
> However when I rebooted I get a "Missing Operating System" error.
>
> Did I miss a step or is it still necessary to install the
> bootable partition in the first 1024 cylinders?
>
> Is there a way to make the machine boot from this partition?

You went throught lilo configuration, right?

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