On Thursday 27 March 2003 5:31 pm, Sami Näätänen wrote: > On Friday 28 March 2003 01:38, Mike Diehl wrote: > > > > 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. ;)
Well, I went back to check. No, the "virus protection" is turned off. It looks like I may have to do a dd on the drive and start over... GRRRrrrr. Mike Diehl. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
