[Tfug] Whoops

[Ray Reeves]

What is odd is that it started it out of the blue. 
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From: "Choprboy" <choprboy at dakotacom.net> 
To: "Tucson Free Unix Group" <tfug at tfug.org> 
Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2009 4:12:13 AM GMT -07:00 U.S. Mountain Time (Arizona) 
Subject: Re: [Tfug] Whoops 

> On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Ray Reeves <arizray at comcast.net> wrote: 
> > While rebooting my Ubuntu 9.04 I got a message on the screen after the 
> > bios that said "no active partition". Yikes. I found that if I hit the 
> > enter button I was then sent to the grub screen and everything booted. 
> > 
> > Sounds scary. Any ideas? 
> > 
On Saturday 25 July 2009 20:41, Terence Rudkin wrote: 
> I don't think that scary. The grub config is corrupt, but not so bad as 
> to not allow a boot. Check confiuration and the default partition exist. 
> 


Maybe, but not necessarily. The is an "active" or boot flag that can be set on 
disk partition format, normally this is set on the primary Win/DOS partion. 
BIOSes will often look for the first partition with an active flag and read 
the boot sector of that partition to load the OS. Your BIOS is probably 
complaining as it wants to auto-start from the partion marked active. 


Adrian 


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