[Leaplist] Re: boxen won't install OS

[Bruce Metcalf]

kestrel7 wrote:
Bruce wrote:
>> Anybody want to plan to help me figure out why three boxen here won't
>> load *any* OS?

> I didn't see this answered earlier, if it was just ignore.

Nope, still fighting the battle.


> 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.

Yeah, two of these boxen have that setting in their BIOS, and I have 
unchecked it. That's not it.

Thanks for the idea anyway. Some day, *one* of the suggestions has to work!

Bruce