If you are reinstalling and dont care about whats on the disk then you can wipe the master boot record using a boot floppy and then typing dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda Just leave that running for a couple of seconds and disk should now appear as an unpartitioned unformated disk to the installation program.
Of course if you've got data on the disk you want do not do this. Other ideas. On next re-install complete the create boot disk section. Make a sperate /boot partition within the first 2gigs of the disk Make sure the disk is set to LBA in the bios (never too sure bout this one but all mine are). Rob On Friday 15 February 2002 04:14, you wrote: > I just upgraded to a MSI K7T266 Pro with 1.3 GHZ Athlon and 512MB DDR RAM. > LILO won't boot. I get "LI" and it hangs. An FAQ suggested that /sbin/lilo > be executed from a boot disk to correct the problem. I did that and it > still won't boot. So, I decided to reinstall 8.1. I still have the problem. > Any solutions or recommendations? > > > > > Encryption isn't just for secrets anymore.......
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
