Error loading operating system

[dongio2]

After a clean install of Fedora Core 2 on a 10 GB hard drive, I get the following message: Error Loading Operating System. I have done installs Red Hat installs since 7.2 and never had the problem before. Anybody has any suggestions? I select GRUB as the bootloader.

[kkubasik]

exacyly how far along did the boot get?

[dongio2]

actually, the error message is displayed right after the system boot (detected keyboard, mouse, hard drive..etc)

[kkubasik]

but you do get part of the kernel inizalized? in that case, its most likly that something got corrupted during the install. just md5checksum the isos' and re install.

[dongio2]

Unfortunatelly, I don't get any initialization of the Kernel, the error message is the first thing I get after the computer has started to reboot.
Also I check the MD5 on the ISOs and they are all good. I did reinstall 3 times already yesterday and kept on getting the same message.

Thanks for the help

[kkubasik]

download new os, thats the sure fix, unless you really want SUSE, but befor you wast cd's, wait and see if anyone has a better solution. well, really a solution

[U-Turn]

Grub didn't get installed properly. You'll need to clean up the mbr and then reinstall Grub.
The quick and dirty way to clean up the mbr would be to grab a Win9x boot floppy and, after booting from it, issue fdisk /mbr. This woll format the master boot record. Then grab Fedora Core 2 install cd1 and boot from that. From the installer menu, select Repair existing installation(or whatever similar).