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Basically, Don't put lilo on the master boot record of the boot drive.
Instead, put it on the superblock of the linux partition marked bootable.
The reason is that EZ Drive lives on the master boot record,
and functions as the boot loader, which in turn loads the boot code on
active partition.

Matt G.

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On Sat, 20 Mar 1999, Johann Schneidhofer wrote:

> have an old 486 installed with RH 5.2 but cannot 
> install the boot-loader on my harddisk, because 
> there is an EZ-Bios.
> 
> How can I uninstall or delete that BIOS ?
> 
> Seems, that EZ-BIOS will not allow to change the boot-sector. On startup
> it appears with the messages:
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------
> EZ-BIOS: Initializing...
> EZ-BIOS: Hold the CTRL key down for Status 
> Screen or to boot from floppy...
> EZ-BIOS: Contunuing startup...
> 
> NO PT
> Insert disk,
> press a key
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------
> 
> and then the system is waitung.
> Only with the boot-disk of RH 5.2 I can boot.
> 
> The harddisks I can see after booting are not 
> hda or hdb, they are hdh, hdg, 
> (hde and hdf = both of that are floppies).
> 
> I had to use an addon-ide card, because the 
> oldone doesn't see the new harddisks and don't 
> work with the CD-ROM.
> 
> But after booting, it's a really good mail-and-file-server
> and much more stabil as any winfroze was ago.
> 
> Any ideas ?
> 
> 2nd. question :
> how can I disable in netscape 4.5 looking for :
> pop.btx.dtag.de
> 
> it appears every 10 minutes after going offline.
> 
> Your help is very welcome and
> 
> Thanks in advance 
> 
> hans schneidhofer
> email: <lws workshop t-online de>
> 
> 
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