Lance
You should disable all Norton especially AutoProtect and disable any
anti-virus settings in your BIOS. The BIOS setting is the one that caught me
when I first installed Linux on a WIN98/Win2000 system.
If you have fixed your Win2000 MBR if you choose you can add Linux to it
rather than using LILO as your boot loader.
Charles :-)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lance" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2000 12:11 AM
Subject: [newbie] trouble with 7.0 deluxe install and lilo
> 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
>
>
