hello ppl ! i recently decided to upgrade to mandrake 7.1 air, from ver 6.1. i got the gpl-version, 2 cd�s, booted from cdrom and everything went fine. chose "upgrade" and then installation process told me that it was searching for packets which need to be upgraded and that i was later able to chose which of them i would like to upgrade. after a while setup finished searching and simply started installing packages - without prompting me to choose ! i didnt want to interrupt the installation process because a feared linux wouldnt work at all if i did, so i left it installing.....mandrake air intalled 2 hours (!!) packets....after that i thought i would get the chance to do all the settings like user managment, printer, x, and the most important one : creating a boot disk !!........but mandrake didnt do anything of these things......i simply saw some dialog boxes rushing over my screen, and finally a last dialog box told me that linux was now completly installed and that i could now reboot my computer...... i was somehow amazed about this......but i restarted.......and guess : after choosing "Linux" from my win nt bootmanager i only got 2 characters to see from LILO.....: LI nothing more......completly dead......i hoped to be able to start it from my previous boot disk.....from version 6.1......i inserted ..linux began booting from floppy and finally i got somrthing like : insert root floppy and hit enter ! i didnt have some other boot floppy from linux........this was the only disk i created during setup of ver. 6.1 so i hit enter and got after some seconds : kernel panic : no init found....... i really dont know what was going on......i had a full operating and functionally linux 6.1....which took me 6 months to set up......and now everything is gone...... i would really appreciate if someone could tell me what the hell mandrake air did with my WORKING LINUX INSTALLATION........aaaaaargh.--- please anybody tell me whether it is completly fucked up or whether theres a way to recover or to access 7.1....... btw......it didnt fuck up my win98 installation......at least......some good thing...... --quaylar ...a resignated linux newbie
