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[Adam Clark <adamsgl AT dhbit.ca>]

Hi Eric,

Out of curiosity, is this option even necessary?  Ie, if, after doing the
kernel install, you go and edit lilo.conf (which the menu option presents
you with) and you put in the appropriate 'disc' instead of 'part', doesn't
that re-do the MBR properly?  If it does, is this something that should be
made clearer in the install guide?

If not, why not?

Obviously, I'd like to try and curb this kind of problem.

Thanks,

On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 12:01:59 -0800
Eric Womack <eric AT sourcemage.com> 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.
> 
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