Mandrake 9.1 upgrade problems

[Lee Einer]

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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