Hah! I was about to email with the *exact* same problem!
I did the install of 7.3 and can boot just fine with the floppy but when I try to boot off the hard disk I get the no operating system message as well. I have a TYAN K7X and dual athlon 2000+ and onboard adaptec U160 SCSI controller (AIC_7899) with a 36GB 15000rpm X15 U160 seagate cheetah. I have scoured the web for solutions and found that for the disk to boot the SCSI ID of the boot disk must be 0 or 1 which it was. A few other sites hinted that enabling or disabling INT 13 support in the SCSI bios may fix the problem, it didn't. I tried installing lilo instead of grub - the same error message so I returned to grub which I like better. I tried another install not putting the boot info on the MBR but on the first disk slice (/dev/sda1) with the same result. I made a grub boot disk and if I use it and type "root (hd0)" which it must be as there is only one disk it gives an error. SO I definately think there is a problem with the bios seeing the disk as a bootable drive. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Many Thanks, Melinda On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Matt Hyne wrote: :: ::I have been having trouble getting a machine to boot lilo (or anything ::from HDD) after an install of RH7.3. :: ::Lilo is installed (and I ran it again for good measure) but the only way I ::can get linux to boot is to use the boot floppy I created at install time. :: ::The machine is a PII-400 with an Intel MB, NCR SCSI adaptor (sym53c8xx) and ::a 4.3Gb HDD. :: ::I also tried recreating the initrd (and it is in lilo) but still it tells ::me that there is no operating system found when it try to boot the disk. :: ::Any ideas ? :: ::Matt :: ::-- ::SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ ::More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug :: -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
