no operating system found error

Rick Stevens ricks at alldigital.com
Wed Sep 25 21:00:06 UTC 2013


On 09/25/2013 11:10 AM, Phil Dobbin issued this missive:
> On 25/09/13 18:40, Jan Litwiński wrote:
>> Dnia 2013-09-25, o godz. 18:19:06
>> Phil Dobbin <bukowskiscat at gmail.com> napisał(a):
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've been using Fedora 19 quite happily for a while now but today
>>> when I booted her I got an error message along the lines of '62: No
>>> operating system found' & she refused to boot.
>>>
>>> I'm guessing it's a Grub problem but I've no clue as to go about
>>> doing requisite repair work, even after spending an hour Googling the
>>> problem.
>>>
>>> If anybody could help me out, I'd be eternally grateful.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>>      Phil...
>>>
>> boot from Fedora DVD or CD, select Troubleshoot, then select Rescue
>> installed system, when booted enter following commends:
>>
>> chroot /mnt/sysimage
>> grub2-install /dev/sda
>> grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
>>
> Thanks, Jan. I'll save that for further reference as when I just booted
> it to insert Knoppix/SystemRescue it booted normally, much to my surprise.
>
> I think I'll run memtest though just in case.

Also check your power supply and disk cabling. That message is usually
issued by the BIOS saying it can't find a hard disk with a boot sector.
That can be caused by cabling issues or perhaps a power supply that's
going bad.
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