Quoting Gerald Timothy Quimpo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > no. i've dual booted w2k before too. must be something stupid > about this computer. i just looked at the partitions under linux > fdisk and it whines about inconsistencies, i think having to do > with where partitions start and end and it not liking those numbers. > i've forgotten just what the error is. i've temporarily given up on > this lilo problem for now.
Sometimes, there's something about one's MBR contents that software just doesn't seem to like. The brute-force way to fix it is by zeroing it out, _but_ you have to be really careful not to touch the partition table, which is immediately after the 446-byte program area. # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=446 count=1 _Then_, if that doesn't let you overwrite the MBR's program area, probably no software will. (You'll still need to put something back into it.) Last, this isn't likely the problem, but be sure to check in your motherboard's BIOS Setup program, to make sure that "virus protection" is switched off. That's a hardware feature that prevents all forms of write access to all of sector zero. If it were my computer, and none of the above helped, then I'd want to carefully back up the data, then low-level-format the hard drive in order to start with a reassuringly clean slate. The great thing is that this is just a matter of entering the SCSI host adapter's built-in utilities. Simple. (Oh, no SCSI host adapter? Sucks to be you. ;-> ) -- Cheers, "My file system's got no nodes!" Rick Moen "How does it shell?" [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
