Use a MSDOS boot disk with the fdisk program on it. type the following:
A:\> fdsik /mbr


then try installing NetBSD again. Or make you boot blocks somehow.

cheers
TOny Hernandez


-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Hoffman <phoffman@proper.com>
To: netbsd-help@netbsd.org <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
Date: Thursday, February 03, 2000 5:05 PM
Subject: Installing NetBSD on a system that has LILO


>Greetings. I've just been through a bit of hell trying to install NetBSD on
>a previous Linux system. Even though I told the NetBSD installer that I
>wanted the whole disk for NetBSD, the NetBSD installer didn't wipe out
>Linux's LILO, so the reboot after installation went into LILO, which of
>course failed as it tried to boot. So I rebooted Linux from floppy and did
>"lilo -u" to unload it. I reinstalled NetBSD, and still no luck. This time,
>it just said "LI" and froze.
>
>After a bit of consultation, I was told that:
>disklabel -W wd0
>dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/wd0d bs=1024 count=10
>would wipe out what was left from LILO, and it did. The next NetBSD install
>went fine.
>
>Why didn't the first installs overwrite LILO or what was left of it after
>"lilo -u"? Can this be fixed for future NetBSD releases?
>
>--Paul Hoffman
>