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Posted: Dec. 06 2005,04:37 QUOTE
OK, I've been mucking around with a bunch of the small distros and keep coming back to DSL for a couple of old computers, one a pentium 200 and the box with the coming problem, a Cyrix 260, I think. It runs at 200MHz. I tried to do a hard drive install using Lilo because there was an error trying Grub. I don't remember if this was with an earlier version of DSL or Puppy. Sorry. Anyway, I booted to a windows 98 diskette and partitioned and formatted the drive. An old 850mb drive. I tried to cfdisk from the live DSL. It tossed me an error so I live booted Feather and used its cfdisk to re-partition the drive to a linux and linux swap partition, then ran an install of DSL and chose Grub as the boot loader. That all looked like it went well and I got to the reboot, cd drawer opened and I pulled the cd, closed the drawer and hit enter. The reboot started and I got the L99 99 99 99 adnauseum error. How in the hell do I get rid of that Lilo junk left over? I couldn't find anything on a search here.
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Posted: Dec. 06 2005,07:43 QUOTE
HD must be Primary on IDE0

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Posted: Dec. 06 2005,13:02 QUOTE
If you don't mind wiping the entire disk, you can boot the live CD and use this command (assuming /dev/hda is your disk):
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda
Alternatively, you could wipe only the master boot record:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
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Posted: Dec. 06 2005,16:22 QUOTE
Quote (AwPhuch @ Dec. 06 2005,02:43)
HD must be Primary on IDE0

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Yes, the drive is primary. It's the only drive in the unit and is on ide0.
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Posted: Dec. 06 2005,16:25 QUOTE
Quote (skaos @ Dec. 06 2005,08:02)
If you don't mind wiping the entire disk, you can boot the live CD and use this command (assuming /dev/hda is your disk):
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda
Alternatively, you could wipe only the master boot record:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1

I have no problems with wiping the entire disk and yes, the HD is hda1. I think I'll try wiping only the mbr first though. Thanks for the instruction.

I thought that doing an unconditional format from the win98 boot disk would have cleaned the whole drive but apparently it leaves the mbr alone.
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