Petri Laihonen wrote:
>He))o!
>
>I've been trying to install a new OS on the machine which used to have
>debian on it. I'm having a great deal of trouble with booting up from CD or
>floppy in order to start new installation.
>
>Every time, even when I have completely disabled harddrive from the bios
>boot up sequence, the system starts loading LILO and attempts to start the
>operating system previously installed. Naturally that would fail also since
>I tried to repartition the drive and did not create any new partitions. Lilo
>still persists.......
>
>Petri
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Use a win98se startup disk to fix your mbr. You can get a copy from
bootdisk.com. Boot to the floppy you just made and run:
fdisk /mbr
That will fix your problem.
Jay
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