Its actually pretty easy to fix the mbr. In some bios, the virus warning
appears if any programs try to write the MBR and prevents it so, go into
the bios and disable it now rearrage the boot sequence and boot from floppy
or cdrom, from inside linux now just update instead of install and retrace
your steps of installation. now install lilo and your system should be
normal. Remember to make a boot disk within linux and may be NT too. If you
still suspect a boot sector virus, get a rescue disk from any good
antivirus like norton or esafe and clean your system.
-shyam
At 10:26 AM 1/9/2001 +0530, you wrote:
>I was using the PCQ CD for installing RH62 on my NT machine. During the
>last stage of the custom installation, while confuring the MBR for
>lilo, I saw a stage red screen appeared giving warning on the
>chipawayvirus. Once I continued with Linux as the default OS, finally
>LILO prompt came. At this stage, linux or linux /dev/hdb6 input
>returned an error code. Rebooting the system didn't help either. The
>monitor started showing lines full with 0101....
>I suspect a boot virus infected during Linux installation. Any one
>experienced similar problem? Pl. let me know any solution to salvage
>the harddisk.
>
>tia
>Subrata
>
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