id already experience that.. before i upgraded from FreeBSD to Debian, and i used cfdisk of debian..
and cleanly installed my debian... try it -----Original Message----- From: Gerald Timothy Quimpo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 4:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 -- Gerald Timothy Quimpo tiger*quimpo*org gquimpo*sni-inc.com tiger*sni*ph Public Key: "gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 672F4C78" Lack of money is the root of all evil. George Bernard Shaw _ 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] _ 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] _ 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]
