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background
attempting restore mbr of disc comprises 1 50gb win xp partition (c , 1 c950gb ntfs partition (e. gparted confirms boot flag set c:. fdisk confirms xp partition sda1 , other sda2.

boot ubuntu livecd 2gb usb pendrive. in order this, required set pendrive primary hard disc in asus mobo's bios. way boot machine usb device.

problem
problem arises when try run lilo in usual way performing following 2 commands...
code:
sudo apt-get install lilo  sudo lilo -m /dev/sda mbr
error
@ point presented error message:
fatal: /dev/sda1 not master device primary partition table
question
because aforementioned necessity of setting pendrive in bios primary disc, somehow interfering lilo?

how can override lilo error message , proceed rewriting mbr sda1 regardless?



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