That would have done it.... but instead I scrubbed it back to wood and spent two days figuring out how to stand this box on it's ear so that windows anything would install. Get this go through the win2000 install... no sweat. boot the box.... nothing is there.. just a blank screen. Take the hdd to another box. win2000 boots.... aaaaaaaahhhhh. MDK 9,0 went it like a charm though....
Thanks to all for the info. James On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 14:34, Todd Lyons wrote: > James Sparenberg wrote on Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 01:03:58AM -0700 : > > > > The original problem is and I'm still wondering.... When you install > > lilo to hda1 (the first partition) instead of the MBR what is the > > filename that contains lilo? > > There is no file. It is outside of the file system. You know the > command: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1 > > It writes exactly 512 zeros to the very beginning of /dev/hda, aka, the > MBR. Each partition has also 512 bytes worth of space. You would be > tempted to call it the partition MBR, but in their infinite wisdom, the > powers that be called them the "boot sector". So if you wuld have done: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda1 bs=512 count=1 > > It would have written 512 zeros to the very beginning of /dev/hda1, > which would have gotten rid of the lilo that you were seeing I do > believe. > > Again, this is kind of just a guess since I think I missed out on much > of the discussion. > > Blue skies... Todd > -- > ...and I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious > anger, those who attempt to poison and destroy my binaries, and you > will know my name is root, when I lay my vengeance upon thee. > Cooker Version mandrake-release-9.0-0.3mdk Kernel 2.4.19-16mdk
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