You have two separate issues. Booting and LAN. "Host unreachable" is caused by many things check all your net settings.
Dave
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From: Glenn Evanish [SMTP:glenn twics com]
Sent: Saturday, February 27, 1999 4:15 AM
To: redhat-install-list redhat com
Subject: Linux as virus?
I set up a dual boot W98/RH 5.2 per the instructions on troubleshooters.com
(someone introduced it on this list) on a hard drive I had bought just for
the occasion (just pulled the power on the existing one).
I expected LILO to ask me which system I wanted on the first reboot, but it
went staight to W98, so I rebooted with the boot floppy I'd just made. To
me horror, I got a message from BIOS that it had encountered a virus!
Thinking it was impossible to have a virus when the only thing I had was
W98 and RH5.2 on a brand new disk, with some fear and trepidation, I just
told the BIOS to go ahead with the boot. RH came up and everything was fine.
Everything, that is, until I tried to ping the card. It tells me
"Destination host unreachable." Not only in LInux, though, but also with
my old HD and NT! In other words, as far as I can tell, I really did
something to the BIOS that made all networking immpossible.
Has anyone out there run into the same thing? I'm talking about an Asus
P2B mainboard. This is the third machine that I've installed Linux on
using that same CD, so it's still very hard to believe that I've installed
a virus. But then, what the heck knocked out my network?
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