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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!newshost.marcam.com!news.kei.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!satisfied.elf.com!usenet From: *Hobbit* <hobbit@asylum.sf.ca.us> Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: MBR problems :( Date: 18 Jan 1995 17:15:59 EST Organization: large Lines: 10 Sender: root Approved: God Expires: 1 Apr 95 12:34 Message-ID: <3fkgp0$o2@satisfied.elf.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: asylum.sf.ca.us You might also be running into a problem if you have a "virus protecting" BIOS, which prevents writing to the MBR [or at least honks loudly and asks you if you really want to do that]. Mine asks; if I tell it NOT to write the MBR, the boot manager loops. The real deficiency here is that the boot manager insists on crapping bytes back into the MBR. What genius-boy made that braindead design decision?! LILO handles it much more elegantly. _H*