Your problem could be related to your software raid in that it can affect
how the installation program reads your MBR and therefore wrights to it.
There was a posting this week on the Mandrake Forum regarding soft raids.
You might want to check it out.
Charles
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Slezak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2000 7:43 PM
Subject: [newbie] Hosed my system
> Not that I can't recover, but I would like to get some insight to
> what I did wrong. Last night I decided to install mandrake 7.2 on my
system
> that has 2 hdds with 3 paritions on each. The last parition on both hdd's
> was a software raid 0 from NT. The first 2 paritions on each hdd had a
copy
> of NT 4 that I was duel booting between (acutally one was a backup copy
just
> in case). So I had 3G of free hdd space on the second hdd, with the boot
> loader on the 1st hdd, ( so at worst I thought nothing would affect the
1st
> hdd). So in this free space is where I mounted the swap and system linux
> parition. And here is where I think I might of screwed up. I formated the
> linux parition with ext2. From the install guide it said I would
eventually
> be given the choice to rewrite the mbr or if there was another boot loader
> then you can choose to install some boot files to the first sector of the
> boot parition. Then you can just add an entry in the boot loader for
linux.
> Well this step never came up, it went ahead and just installed the
> lilo/grub. And from there linux is fine but I haven't been able to get
back
> into NT( and of course I spaced making a recovery disk) My next step was
> just to reinstall NT back into the first parition on the first hdd but
> basically NT wasn't able to work with my drives anymore to reinstall NT.
So
> here is where I need help, as far as I can tell I need to go thru the
linux
> install and wipe out everything on my drives, exit, then reinstall NT then
> try reinstalling linux using some other file system than ext2?
>
>
>
