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mechanism
02-09-2002, 09:31 PM
on my cmos, it has a built in virus protector. and on my comp i have it dual booted win2k/linux (mandrake 8.1). and when i went to load win2k, the virus protector came on sayin that there was a virus in the boot sector. but it went ahead and loaded win fine, and then i used norton to check it, and it said otherwise. and also i configed linux to boot on lilo, and it never did, it always used grub. so then i turned it off, and now it uses lilo just fine, and it uses all of the configs that i had set up. so i kinda figured, (not knowin much about linux bein a begginer and all), that linux had put a code on the boot sector that made it think things or sumthin, i mean i think i know, just hard to explain it. but i just wanted to know if anyone knew exactly what happened with it. sorry so long.

furrycat
02-10-2002, 09:10 PM
If you're trying to say that the BIOS detected the LILO boot signature and thought it was a virus then you are right. Disable virus checking in the BIOS unless you are very paranoid about bootsector viruses and can live with being beeped at every time you boot the system.