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Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 01:38:40 -0500
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Subject: 5.2-RC1 messes up MBR
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Despite saying "none" in the bootloader part of sysinstall, the
installation seems to have done something to the MBR of my laptop.  On
booting, I got neither lilo nor FreeBSD's booteasy, but some garbage
characters and a hang; I needed to boot a livecd and re-run lilo to
fix this.

Rahul