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
>
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