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[John T Copeland <johnc AT neto.com>]

Eric Womack wrote:

> 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.
>
>  
Eric,
You probably know this but:
If you install lilo in, say, /dev/hda1, you got to have some other 
primary booter in the MBR; BootMagic, BootManager, etc.  Or you can 
install lilo into the MRB.

One other point.  Be sure the partiton where you install SMGL is marked 
bootable when you partition your drive.  This caused me problems.
Johnc