[syslinux] Problem with syslinux and HD partition (#2)

[H. Peter Anvin]

Spiro Philopoulos wrote:
> While trying to get syslinux to work off a hard drive partition, I ran fdisk 
> /MBR to get a a MBR on the disk and set the DOS partition as active, but 
> still I can't get it to work. The error message I get at boot is:
> 
> 	Searching for Boot Record from IDE-0..OK
> 	Missing operating system
> 
> I'm pretty sure that the kernel image, syslinux.cfg etc. are all fine.
> Any ideas as to what I might be doing wrong? Thanks in advance.

This message implies you either don't have an active partition, or you
have not run syslinux on the partition.

	-hpa