Mandrake 9.1 upgrade problems

[Paul Dickson]

On Sat, 17 May 2003 16:04:16 -0700, Lee Einer wrote:

> I have just attempted to upgrade my HP laptop from Mandrake 8.2 to 
> Mandrake 9.1, and have encountered a problem. The upgrade appeared to go 
> ok, until I obeyed the message, took out the CD and rebooted. On reboot, 
> the screen shows only the letters LI, which I think means that Lilo is 
> hosed. Put the CD back in, selected F1 for other options and typed in 
> "rescue." The rescue screen comes up and immediately freezes, so I can 
> select no options. I reboot and attempt to re-run the upgrade. This 
> time, everything progresses well until the upgrade gets to "preparing 
> bootloader," where the system freezes.
> 
> My laptop has no floppy drive, so I was not able to create a boot floppy 
> and could not run one if I did. Any suggestions as to how to get this 
> beast up and running (while preserving my home directory?)

Does the laptop's BIOS have a virus protection option?  This might
interfer with boot block updates.

	-Paul