Hi, Paul- The laptop's BIOS has no virus protection option. Lee Paul Dickson wrote: >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 > >--------------------------------------------------- >PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: >http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >