Try pressing the DEL or F2 keys at boot to enter the BIOS setup (or whatever key it tells you on-screen). It may be that your boot order has changed, and the BIOS is no longer seeing the CD as a viable boot option. Garrett DeBeau at aol.com wrote: > I am new to LINUX and was in the process of installing Red Hat 7.2 on > an old first generation pentium machine when I lost power halfway > through the install process. When I restarted the machine using the > install diskette from an earlier dual boot on my office system, the > BIOS sent the message "Missing operating system" > > How do I get the installation process going again? > > Thanks for any help you may offer. > > Richard DeBeau > Minneapolis -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20030325/423a23d3/attachment.html