Marcia L Waller wrote: > Dear All, > > <I had remnants of Suse on my 2nd drive I believe and decided during the > reinstall to delete that. ( I fdisked my 2nd drive yesterday). I did a > fresh install and everything went fine so it said. In fact for the first > time it actually recognized my network card during installation. After it > said my installation was successful I rebooted and shortly after startup > it went to stage 1 and just sat there. I reinstalled again and the same > thing happened. Does anyone have any ideas. I suspect I goofed up on > partitioning somehow. I have 2 harddrives and I was putting linux on the > 1st and just leaving the 2nd cleared. What can I do now? > > > I would like to add to this: my goal here is to have nothing but Linux > Mandrake 7.2 on my machine. Suse seemed to mess things up for whatever > reason so that is why I fdisked it away. What can I do to get my machine > to accept Linux M 7.2? It took the install like a charm . Just would not > boot up past stage 1. > > Do I need to fdisk/MBR? I cannot even get to a console now. > > Could I use the rescue disk for this? How does one use that in this > situation (step by step)? > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Thank you, Marcia > ________________________________________________________________ > GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! > Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! > Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: > http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. Hi Marcia, I have the same problem with Mandrake 7.2. Yes you can use the rescue disk to recover. I used it and after it loaded I went to /etc/liloconf. You probably will not need to edit this file, but look it over just in case. After you are satisfied with liloconf, you need to execute lilo (that is, just type lilo on a command line.) I had to remove the line 'lba??. I forget what it is exactly, but you will see it and recognize it. Good Lick. Charles
