Marcia L Waller wrote: > Dear All, I decided to reinstall Linux Mandrake 7.2 again > because I could not get my ethernet going and my zip kept > changing on its own whether or not I would have permission > to open it and then all of a sudden my cdrom would say I > had no access rights after working just fine. > > 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? Thanks, Marcia Marcia....that's a grub installation problem I believe. You should be able to boot the system with the boot floppy that you made during the install process. After it boots with your floppy you should be in a position to diagnose either your /etc/lilo.conf or your /boot/grub/menu.lst and then (re)install either lilo or grub. -- Alan
