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Missing Harddrive!

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TheGreatPoo:
OK, I got the flash upgrade from Micron's website and I'm ready to upgrade.  The last flash for this BIOS was made in '97!  I am at work now but will be home in about an hour and will try it.  I will tell ya'll how it goes.  Thanx for the help and your patience!

TheGreatPoo:
Well, I flashed the BIOS and decided to run the installation one more time.  This time I did expert mode.  I partitioned the hardrive and installed all the nessessary software to boot and run Linux (includiong the bootloader LILO).  I even created a boot floppy.  Unfortionately, when I rebooted, the same message ("missing Operating system") appeared.  I decided to try the boot floppy.  I rebooted with the floppy in the drive.  It started to boot off of the floppy, got past the delay, and then gave me a message that said "Boot Failed".  I'm pretty sure it's official that Mandrake Linux will not work on this machine.  I'm not that upset because this was not a machine that I had any intentions of keeping.  This was just to experiment on.  I just hope that the computer which I DO plan to keep will load Linux.  :(

Thanx for everyone's help and patience!

Master of Reality:
hmmmmm... i had a problem similar to this that i now recall. It only happened when i tried installing windows, so i went fully over to Linux. I have no clue how it got solved now since i have a dual boot with windows.

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