On Tuesday 03 February 2004 05:23 pm, Robert Walker wrote: > a cheapo MSI motherboard. This MB has a virus checker in the BIOS > which checks the MBR for nasty viri. Unfortunately it thinks Linux is > a virus so I just turned it off (its probably only needed by M$ > Winblows users anyway :-). So don't worry about using the MBR..
If you want to use the BIOS virus check, leave it off until you install the bootloader and then turn it back on. It merely prevents anything from writing to the mbr and lets you know if it changes. If you turn it on after you write the mbr, it shouldn't give you trouble. -- /g
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