On Saturday 20 November 2004 10:02 pm, Lanman wrote: > The only reason that I'm suspecting the motherboard is because the very > first drive I had in this system ended up with disk errors, and then > this problem appeared. The M/Board doesn't have any mention of BIOS > anti-virus protection which has been typical with Asus. Add to that the > fact that the BIOS usually warns you if something tries to write to the > boot sector of the drive and I haven't seen anything like that with this > board. > > But the fact that something is preventing me from writing to the MBR has > me very curious too. This is the first time I've ever seen this at all > in about 10 years, and re-doing the BIOS would usually kill any TSR or > other virus embedded onto the motherboard.
I think you might be interested in this? http://www.techimo.com/forum/t126736.html Do you use grub? Maybe lilo is your answer. http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2004-Nov/1911.html HTH -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux2.arinet.org 22:37:55 up 3:01, Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Official) for i586 public key: https://www.arinet.org/fajar-pub.key
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