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[ILUG] KT7A mobo + lilo/grub

[ILUG] KT7A mobo + lilo/grub

Wesley Darlington wesley at blackstar.co.uk
Mon May 28 13:30:07 IST 2001


Howdy,

On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 08:32:27AM +0100, Brian Nesbitt wrote:
>  I have a KT7A mobo and I can't get lilo or grub to write to the mbr correctly.
>  I have the machine set up with three disks. Windows is on the primary master
>  (ata100) and linux is on two disks on the raid controller. Linux installs fine
>  but can't write to the MBR (hda) using either lilo or grub, I can boot from a
>  floppy though. Any ideas how I can get lilo to work?

Is the bios set up to do boot sector virus protection, to stop
anything writing to the mbr of hard drives?

Wesley.




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