linux rescue

[Howard Lowndes]

On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, Simon Burton wrote:

>
> booting IDE-1: missing operating system

Isn't this trying to look on the Secondary IDE, so the device would be
/dev/hdc or /dev/hdd

>
> so i boot from the linuxcare CD and ran e2fsck
> on hdb1 (mount /) and hdb5 (mount /home) it's OK.
> Also, fdisk puts a star next to hdb1 - bootable.
> Then did this "chroot /mnt/host lilo" with /dev/hdb1
> mounted at /mnt/host. OK.
>
> booting IDE-1: missing operating system
>
> so what did i miss?
>
> -simon
>

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