On Sat, 20 Jul 2002 11:52:12 Kelly Ash wrote:

Anybody out there?? Hope so! It's me..Kelly...using an old hotmail addy for the moment. Did my install this morning, went smooth as far as I could tell. Got to the very end and I clicked "OK" to reboot. Supposedly I was supposed to get a choice of either Windows or Linux (If I haven't wiped out my Windows hd that is *g*). But all I get is a black screen with: MBR Error 3 MBR Error 3 MBR Error 1 Press any key to boot from floppy. As it zipped through the steps during the install it didn't ask me once to insert a floppy! If I click any key after the last bit up there I just get: 'MBR Error 2-Press any key to boot from floppy. I've got a number here somewhere that someone (would be nice if I could remember a name!) gave me in case of problems but will check back in email a couple times first even if I DO find it, lol. The cc's are to the only addy's I could find right now for ALUG, and ones I THINK I know. We'll see how close I get *g*

It looks like the install process failed to set up the master boot record correctly - the master boot record is the first this the BIOS loads into memory when trying to boot the system.

There are some possibilities to sort this out. Do you know which boot loader was supposed to get installed? If it is lilo or grub (the free ones) then easiest way to sort this out is with a bootable Linux floppy or a bootable Linux CD-ROM (if your PC supports bootable CDs).

As the system won't boot at all it sound like this will need someone to come round and visit you, or for you to pick up the required floppy or CD from someome else. Where are you (which town)? Knowing this would help people know if they were close enough to come to help.

Steve.