If you have a DOS boot diskette. Boot with it, then type "fdisk /mbr" this will write an MBR to reflect the DOS boot disk. Install Linux and tell it to use the MBR. Sam. PHPTOm wrote: >Responding to my own post. > >I used a SuSe liveEval cd I got in a magazine to install yesterday. The >"Boot failure" error I was getting was because suse needed the CD to be in >the drive to boot. I assume it wrote to the MBR or something so that when I >installed Mandrake, I was still getting the same "Boot failure" error. What >a crock. > >How is it that a suse install could keep control of the boot after I >repartitioned and installed Mandrake? > >TOm > > > >_______________________________________________ >TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list