Nope, 'tain't possible. (Well, okay, it's within the realm of something
that someone could do, but it's 99.999999% improbable.) It *could* be:
- He thought he removed the primary hard drive, but really removed
the secondary.
- He re-formatted, re-partitioned, and even installed '98, and thought
that this blows away the MBR, but it doesn't (and he said he removed the
HD for emphasis).
- There's a floppy in the drive.
That's 'bout it. I'll lean toward the middle one -- doing an install of
'95, '98, and (probably) Millenium, well, the install works fine. But it
never overwrites the MBR (which is weird, 'cause if the MBR's blank, it
sure does -- maybe it's to keep from stepping on the toes of Disk Mangler
or somesuch), so LILO still comes up. Have him run an
fdisk /mbr
from a DOS boot floppy (or the '98 CD-ROM booted with CD mode enabled)
which will re-write his MBR, and Win 9x should now boot fine.
-Ken
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Bourdon, Bruce wrote:
> A friend had a PC he had to repair recently.
>
> It was Linux based, which he knows nothing about - so he removed the hard
> drive and installed a new drive with an MS-OS impersonator...
>
> The funny part was that he claims the system still seemed to want to load
> Linux!
>
> It has been a few weeks since he first mentioned this, so I forget the
> details, but I think he said it ran the Linux Loader prompt at boot time -
> with the Linux hard drive disconnected and removed from the system!!
>
> This was a Gateway PC, relatively new.
>
> Do some PCs have Linux code in the BIOS chips?
> What else could it be?
>
> Thoughts?
> Bruce.
>
>
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