LILO , should it trigger boot virus warning?

[JustAnAverageGuy]

Recently installed Linux Mandrake 9.2 (ISOs downloaded at mandrakesoft provided links.

Upon completion of configuring and installation, the LILO boot loader came up. On the screen it has BIOS data check, after which the Trend ChipAwayVirus warning came up warning about boot viruses.

Would this be considered normal as the program did redo the partitions on a spare 30GB HDD I had sitting doing nothing? or did I just get a bad one? :/

Bios rev 1007 on an A7N8X Deluxe.

 

[n0cmonkey]

I'm guessing it noticed that the MBR had changed and flagged a warning. Not 100% sure though.

 

[drag]

Did it look like this?

Loading...............
BIOS data check

or

Loading..............s

And freeze up?

It could be a bios bug.

when lilo boots up add the word "nobd" to the boot command line.

For instance if the selection that you use to boot up into is called "Linux" then you'd go

Linux nobd

Then if that works and it boots up you need to go to your /etc/lilo.conf and edit it.
Find the line that says:
append="blah blah blah" or just
append=""

and add nobd between the parentisies.

Or maybe try adding a new line:

suppress-boot-time-BIOS-data

That should automaticly invoke nobd every time you boot up.

Read the lilo man files for details
"man lilo.conf" and "man lilo" commands to read it.

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

that's what I initially thought, but just making sure.

Will wait for extra responses though

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

Loading...............
BIOS data check

That's the one, then a nice big flashing red warning screen.

No errors with the nobd switch though.

 

[drag]

Cool.

Also I forgot to say that you need to rerun "lilo" after editing the /etc/lilo.conf file to make the changes come into effect. It's also a good idea to make a backup file (like lilo.conf.bkup) when editing config files.