I have almost the identical setup. I have NT, DOS and WARP 4 installed and
then installed Mandrake 7.1. All 4 work fine. I do not use system
commander but Powerquest's Boot Magic to switch between them. I tried
TurboLinux 6 before Mandrake and Mandrake is by far the easiest install. I
suspect it has to do with where you ask the install to put your lilo. Do
not put it in the MBR (which I think is the default). Put it in your /
partition and I think that will work.
Jeff Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Registered (Newbie) Linux user 183185
----- Original Message -----
From: Charles A Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 8:35 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] 7.1 Upgrade & MBR of HDA (Torrey)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Torrey Peacock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 8:40 PM
> Subject: Re: [newbie] 7.1 Upgrade & MBR of HDA (Torrey)
>
>
> > My system is setup the same way, with Win98 and Win2000 on hda, and
Linux
> > on hdc. With Mandrake 7.0, I was using LILO to boot either Linux or
> > "Windows" - the NT boot loader - from which I could select either
version
> > of Windows. I tried installing 7.1 both as an upgrade (once) and as a
New
> > Installation (three times). Prior to doing that, I had installed System
> > Commander, and made sure I could boot into Windows with it. Then I
> > disabled Sys Commander, and proceeded to install 7.1 - and that's when
my
> > wonderful adventures with GRUB first began. I still need to use a boot
> > floppy to access Linux. I am thinking of trying another distribution,
> > which hopefully will handle these matters more gracefully.
> >
>
> Torrey
> To me one of the Big differances between 7.1 and 7.0 is that neither
Grub
> nor Lilo is effected by the 1024 restriction and Neither uses a Boot
> partition.
> I still believe that if you removed rather than disabling SC, booted to
> Linux and re-installed Lilo, Lilo would be able to write itself to the
> proper sector of your hda and would therefor function properly. Or if you
> did not wish to do that then add the Lilo info to SC and use SC as your
main
> bootloader.
> Howerver you choose to proceed, either with Mandrake or with another
> Distro good luck to you. Should you ever wish my imput I will be happy to
> offer it.
>
> Charles :-)
>
>
