[Leaplist] Re: boxen won't install OS

[kestrel7]

Anybody want to plan to help me figure out why three boxen here won't
load *any* OS?

Yeah, they even reject Windoze, which all formerly ran.

One is a problem; two is a coincidence; but three sounds like some sort
of electronic conspiracy! (That or I'm have a really big stupid attack.)

I didn't see this answered earlier, if it was just ignore.
On some older motherboards there is a setting in the BIOS to prevent 
the MBR from being overwritten by a boot sector virus and if this is 
set to enabled no OS will install.  I'm thinking the setting was under 
advanced.  I remember a lot of head scratching over that one back in 
the day.
HTH,
Pat.