On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, John Carlarne wrote:
Sounds like Lilo or Grub were not installed.
Did you make a boot-diskette during the installation? If so, use that to
boot from, into Linux. Then log in as root, cd to /boot/grub and run
./install.sh
That should set up Grub on your system.
Note: First check if menu.lst looks somewhat reliable. There should be
entries for Windows and Linux in it. If you don't trust it, copy it and
post it to the list.
Also look at /etc/lilo.conf and let us know what's there. I am not sure
which way is decided what boot manager to use by the installer.
Paul
>Apologies for the silly question in advance, but I have found this a bit of
>a riddle. I have managed to install Mandrake 7.2 deluxe on my machine, but
>when it reboots, it does so straight into Windows 98se and not Linux. Could
>anyone tell me what I have done wrong, and what I need to do to sort this
>out. I used the recommended method and installed into an "empty" section of
>my disc -- i.e. not using space in existing windows partition, but a portion
>of my disc shown as empty. I feel that this might have something to do with
>the problem.
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