On Friday 15 November 2002 08:47 am, SteelHead's voice rose above the 
ones in my head and declared:

> I picked up an old Intel JN440bx based server from ebay.  it arrived
> loaded with WinNT and booted fine.  I put a CDROM on the box and
> fought a cd boot, finally giving up and going on to Floppy boot.
>
> I have installed reinstalled RH 7.2 from retail successfully, as lomg
> as I want to boot from a floppy.  I tried all options, LILO, GRUB,
> MBR, sda1 and only get a live system when booting from a floppy. 
> grr!
>
> the scsi system is an adaptec 7880 reading as a 1000 array, 2 ibm
> drives and an assortment of cdroms (one at a time)
>
> We cannot seem to get past the boot from floppy point.
>
> I googled, and noted others have had tsimilar  issues, but found no
> solutions.
>
> Please help, Bill

Try booting from a windoze boot disk and doing fdisk /mbr.  IIRC, winnt 
bootloader doesn't play nice with Linux at all.  Once it is wiped you 
can install another bootloader of you choice.  If you use Lilo, boot 
from you Linux boot disk after you wipe the MBR then run /sbin/lilo.



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