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paul mccarthy wrote:
[snip useless ranting]
IIRC, the isolinux screens (hit F1) do tell you that you need to pass
expert mode to get into expert mode.
> When I installed 9.0 the last time, I made a boot floppy in case I
assigned
> the boot sequence to the wrong drive. It turned out I had, but I was
able to
> get into Linux with the floppy and fix things. The Mandrake 9.1
installation
> script without telling me, stuck the bootstrap on a drive with no OS
and did
> not prompt for a boot floppy. (it does, but you have to scroll off
the page
> to find the prompt and it is really easy to miss. I don't know if it even
> comes up on an ordinary install.)
>
The bootloader is installed by default if the boot drive does not seem
to have a sane bootloader installed.
> I kept waiting for the prompts from the old script and they never came. I
> had to run through the install three times to figure out where the script
> had been changed,
Why, when INSTALL.txt on the CD tells you:
"If you need to rescue your existing Mandrake Linux system, insert your
Installation CDROM (or any relevant boot floppy), press [F1] at
Mandrake Linux welcome screen, then type rescue at the prompt.
"
> and by then something had gone wrong with the boot
> sequence. I could boot into Linux but not Windows. I had to reinstall the
> Windows partition and to get rid of the linux bootstrap, lost all the
> settings for my Windows programs.
Somehow I don't believe that. You don't say which version of Windows,
but most of them are fixed by booting the relevant installation media
and running the relevant tool ('fdisk /mbr' for win9x/me or 'fixmbr' for
win2k/winxp). And in some cases the rescue mode of the Mandrake
installation disk will do it also.
If you want to pursue a fix to this problem, please don't rant, rather
file a polite bug report at http://qa.mandrakesoft.com
Regards,
Buchan
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