try doing a cfdisk utility...
-----Original Message-----
From: Gerald Timothy Quimpo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 4:18 PM
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Subject: Re: [plug] lilo problem
On Tuesday 28 January 2003 05:11 pm, Rick Moen wrote:
hi rick,
> 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.
yes, i'd checked that. i knew it wasn't that though since a dos
fdisk /mbr did drop the FreeBSD loader.
previously you had said (and someone else had pointed it out,
you just gave more information):
> When you do things like this, make very, very sure that the "boot=" line
> in lilo.conf says /dev/hda, _not_ /dev/hda1. The former specifies that
> the write target will be the MBR.
i went in and what do you know, it said /dev/hda5! that's the last time
i let someone else install linux and trust what they say when things go
wrong. i guess they didn't actually specify that the MBR be the target.
thanks rick, and aris and jhazer.
tiger
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