hi everyone,
i recently bought (macmillan) mandrake 7.0 deluxe and am having trouble
with the install, mostly getting lilo to work. i have 2 drives in my
machine with windows 2000 professional on a 20gig, and a master-slaved
6gig i want to run mandrake on. i start the install by booting off the cd,
setup my linux partitions automatically and go through the rest of the
install ok. i install lilo to the mbr and configure X and it tells me to
restart. i remove the boot disk and cdrom, restart, and all i get are
"cascading" 1's and 0's...i power down, start up with the boot disk i made
and lilo gives me *no* option for my windows partition that sits on the
other hard drive. i get into linux/kde with the floppy boot disk and add
the win partition to lilo in drakconf and try rebooting without the
bootdisk and i get 1's and 0's again. if i start with the bootdisk i'm ok,
but i cannot choose to boot into windows 2000. at this point i got a
little freaked out and had to overwrite my mbr to get access to windows
again, and have been hesitant to go any further with mandrake since i've
got 10 gigs of critical data on my windows 2000 drive/partition that i
must be able to acesss at all times for work. my system specs are 300mhz
AMD, 128 ram, 3dfx voodoo 2000, and on-board crystal pnp sound. i should
also note that i have norton antivirus2000 installed on windows, and
i'm wondering if maybe that is keeping lilo from writing itself to the
mbr? i am a former suse user and am new to mandrake/red hat, so any help
with this would be greatly appreciated! really looking forward to going
back to linux after a 6 month hiatus...many thanks!
best regards,
lance
