Everything went ok for me when loading Mandrake. It detected all my stuff fine and I had a connection to the net setup quickly but when the family wanted to use XP...well....all hell broke out!!!
Peter -----Original Message----- From: Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 30 May 2003 9:07 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Mandrake 9.1 - Newbie Once I understood what I was doing it only took about 10 minutes - and most of that was rebooting time. Regards, Robert -----Original Message----- From: Peter van Hout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 30 May 2003 9:01 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Mandrake 9.1 - Newbie Thanks Rob. Busy weekend ahead I think. Peter -----Original Message----- From: Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 30 May 2003 8:51 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Mandrake 9.1 - Newbie These sites helped me:- http://jaeger.morpheus.net/linux/ntldr.php http://classes.csumb.edu/CST/CST434-01/world/DualBoot.html I think that if you make the "mistake" of installing your Linux boot loader on the MBR then you have to get rid of it by using a Win98 boot disk and "a:\fdisk /mbr" so that it will then boot into Windows again. Regards, Robert -----Original Message----- From: Undertoad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 29 May 2003 11:04 p.m. To: Peter van Hout Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Canterbury Linux Users Group Subject: Re: Mandrake 9.1 - Newbie By default, I think Mandrake uses Lillo. Can you boot into linux without a problem? If lillo is calling the winxp boot loader properly, then you just need to put the correct information in the winxp boot loader. What is your loader configuration? We'll probably need to know what your partition table looks like too. What happens if you let it boot into "last know good configuration"? kipper On 2003.05.29 09:52, Peter van Hout wrote: > I did copy the hidden files,etc over but left all the data on the > second > drive so the orgianl config file should have still been in the same > place but I will check tonight. I think I'm using grub. > > peter
