Re: [LI] Trouble Installing linux, boot sector problems. please advise

[Bilal Muddassir <noorh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Dogpile ping wrote:

> hello 
> i have Ibm aptiva e-550 machine and i tried to install
> linux in it along with windows 98 second edition . the
> installation goes smoothly till the very last  step
> where the installation program says an "error has
> occured" during the lilo writng to the boot sector.
> and that's it it will not proceed further. only think
> i can do is to get to the menu and ignore that option
> . i am absolutely unable o install custom or
> workstation on my machine into linux . if i install
> server in my linux it it overwriting the windows in my
> machine.

Well it cannot be the Norton Antivirus because when you are installing
Linux there is no Windows in your memory.

It can be your BIOS preventing write to the MBR.

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