On Wed, 6 May 1998, Michael Hatzakis, Jr MD wrote:
> Just want to thank you guys for your suggestions.
>
> Sheer persistence and figured it out. If any of you get the LIL- then freeze, be
>sure to clear your MBR. I had a prior install of DOS in a hda2 or hd3 partition with
>boot. I never really removed it properly and even though I re-installed and re-form
atted with Linux, it does not touch the MBR tracks. So I manually removed all
partitions, reinstalled boot tracks on MBR then installed a second time onto hda1 and
it worked fine... I am now rebooted using first track on hda1. This was very weird,
but
I am making progress, an inch at a time... or should I say, I'm learning...
Sorry Mike, All you needed to do was run a version of DOS fdisk from
MSDOS 5.0 or higher with the following command line fdisk /MBR. That would
have reset the MBR. You did not need to delete the partitions.
Hope this helps in the future.
......Tom "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] for you are crunchy and good with ketchup."
Unix IS user friendly. It's just selective about who its friends are.
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