> I expect that your MBR boots NT4 and as I believe that the problem is the > laptop can not use a boot loader that works with NT4 I think it's likely that > your code will not work with it. However I don't know for sure as I can not > spare the time required to read the code at the moment.
I don't know how can you know if a boot loader works for a laptop or not mesuring if the boot loader can boot NT4. > Another option that probably hasn't been considered. Boot up dos and run > "fdisk /mbr" to put the DOS MBR on it. I'm certain that no-one has released > a PC which is unable to boot DOS... If LILO is then installed to /dev/hda2 > and /dev/hda2 is marked as active in the partition table then DOS should load > up LILO and things should be fine. I can asure you that if DOS mbr works Debian mbr works as well, otherwise we have a big problem. Regards... -- Manty/BestiaTester -> http://manty.net