On Friday 28 March 2003 01:38, Mike Diehl wrote: > On Thursday 27 March 2003 2:08 pm, Collins Richey wrote: > > On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 08:17:42 -0600 > > > > MrPaulAR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > At 12:39 AM 03/27/2003 -0700, you wrote: > > > >So, is there a way to remove the overlay without destroying my > > > > Gentoo install? > > > > > > I'm fairly sure there isn't because that software is installed on > > > the MBR. > > > I don't know how to remove it with linux tools but you can use a > > > MSDOS boot disk and issue fdisk /mbr and that will remove the > > > software. > > > > As he said, but overwriting the mbr will not destroy your gentoo > > install. > > Would you believe that this didn't fix it? I booted a '98 floppy and > did an fdisk /mbr. But when I rebooted to the hard drive, the > overlay was still there! Damned virus.
Have you checked that your BIOS isn't protecting the MBR. Some BIOSes have option to forbid MBR writes. So the writer thinks that it wrote the stuff to the MBR, but the BIOS simply ignores the write. I have once forget that and wondered why lilo doesn't work. ;) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
