On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Thilo Manske wrote:

> (But I still don't know, how the bootblock got coruppted).

I sort of doubt it's the same problem, but, Well, Win95 tends to randomly
rewrite them from time to time, or so i found.  It does something like
``FDISK /MBR'', except while FDISK /MBR is a command that your fingers
type, what I'm talking obout is an autonymous action perhaps vaguely
associated witth some poorly-defined behaviour like opening a control
panel or selecting a particular Tab. I vaguely recall a warning in some
box saying ``Your master boot record has changed.  Your computer may be
infected with a virus.'' but i'm quite sure i never pressed any buttons to
get it rewritten.  So, these days when average joes reinstall Linux for
the third time I tell them not to put LILO in the MBR, because when they
dual-boot it's eventually going to get trashed.  Our bootloaders
understand the filesystem, so this is not nearly such a big deal with
NetBSD where any old boot floppy can load your kernel off the hard disk if
you ask it, but it's still good to be aware of.


Then:
``Windows NT has detected OS/2 on your computer.  These files needlessly
waste disk space and slow down your computer.  Would you  like to:

  o Delete OS/2
  o Abort the installation of Windows NT''

Now:
``Microsoft Word has not been run on this Macintosh before.  Microsoft
Word is updating your System Folder with the necessary Microsoft
Extensions.  Do not interrupt this process.''

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