Possible BIOS problem

[stumbling]

I have just installed mandrake 9.0 onto a computer. Their is a warning that comes up that initially looked like their was a boot virus. As I read the warning I discovered that the warning was for boot viruses and non-compatible operating systems. I have rebooted this computer several times and have opened and played with several programs. I can not see any problems. The only reason that I can think of is that before I put mandrake on this computer I had tried to put win98se onto it. The windows instalation froze so I decided to put only linux into the computer. My question is their really a boot sector virus or is it part of the failed windows instalation that is causing this? Should I reformat the drive? Wouldn't the drive have been formatted when I installed mandrake?

[threadhead]

be sure of that there is no boot sector virus on your box.
a friend of mine had had the same problem a while ago.
he had windows installed before and then linux, exactly the same...well
anyway windows sucks ;)
if you want to get rid of the warning disable the virus check at bootup
in BIOS.
gone?

[michaelk]

With the BIOS boot sector virus detector enabled anytime you write to it you will get that message.

You probably don't have a boot sector virus and as the previous post suggested if you don't want to see the message again disable it in the BIOS.

[stumbling]

Thank You for your help