> On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 10:08, Zachariah Mully wrote: > > Hello all- > > I am having a rather baffling problem with installing WISP/Bearing on > > to a 1.0G IDE harddrive. The funny thing is, I can get the drive to work > > if I partition it and format it in Windows, but I can't get it to work > <snip> > > Well, I ended up using Free FDISK to put a DOS MBR on the drive, as I > couldn't get the win98 fdisk to put a new MBR on the hard drive > (strange). <snip> Oh well. Chalk it up to BillG and the hard drive > kieretsu's.
If you're using Win98 or later, you have to lock the disk before you can successfully replace the MBR, using M$ tools...from my Hard-Disk-HOWTO: 2) If you are running from a windows 95/98 startup disk, you have to run 'lock' to allow low-level access to the hard drive. If you do not do this, syslinux will be unable to install the boot loader on the hard disk, and you will be unable to boot. You can skip this step if you are running a 'real' version of dos instead of a windows startup disk. Charles Steinkuehler http://lrp.steinkuehler.net http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror) ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Jabber - The world's fastest growing real-time communications platform! Don't just IM. Build it in! http://www.jabber.com/osdn/xim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
