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[Eric Womack <eric AT sourcemage.com>]

Quoting "Sergey A. Lipnevich" <sergeyli AT pisem.net>:
> >I have cleared the MBR and am re-installing.  If this works, it would be
> nice 
> >to have that option available from the install menu.
> >
> Which option? To reset MBR? Can't you use one of the partitioning tools 
> offered during install?

Yes, and Yes I could, I was just saying it would be a nice menu option so I 
don't have to shell out of an install.

>Or isn't lilo doing this if you edit 
> /etc/lilo.conf appropriately?

No, it isn't.  And now, having re-installed again (after wiping the MBR), it 
doesn't boot at all!

For the record, I wiped it with this:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1 

I am now going to do the whole drive, and start over.

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Eric Womack
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