Just a WAG (WIld A$$ Guess), some BIOS have built in anti-virus againsy boot sector virus types, check to see if that's on and turn it off it is. It might be blocking lilo/grub from writing to the bootsector thinking it's a virus.
Brian On Sat, 2004-02-07 at 10:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My brother recently built a new computer: > Albatron 865PE motherboard > 1 Gig DDR400 > Radeon 9200 > 40GB HDD, 120GB HDD > P4 2.8Ghz > > I've been trying for the last two days to install Linux on it, and with two > distributions. Slackware has an error when it attempts to install LILO to > either drive's MBR or to the superblock. Debian has no error, but nothing is > installed (I get the "INSERT SYSTEM BOOT DISK AND PRESS SPACEBAR" message, not a > nice one). > I don't think that the motherboard has anti-MBR-writing features (it rejects > win2k installs, BTW) but it could be. Anyone have any advice? > Regards, > Dibujante > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]