> Problems:
> * Mandrake 7.2 installed GRUB but does not give me any option to
> boot to NT.
> * Selecting the Linux option in GRUB - Linux hangs during bootup.
> * (Also during installation I tried but could not create a
> bootdisk.)
>
> Question:
> How can I boot into my NT partition? I don't care if the
> Mandrake installation is lost.
Get online and find bootpart. It is a small DOS program. Read the instructions, it will
help you to recreate the bootloader for NT. That way you have that thing back.
Then, when installing Mandrake, make sure you do NOT let the installer write the
Grub/lilo
loader to /dev/hda1. Create a separate /boot partition and make it write the loader
there,
or in the / (root) partition.
After that, you reboot into NT. Run bootpart without parameters to get a listing of
partitions, and note the partition number that you had the linux loader installed on.
Then
run bootpart <partitionnumber> c:\linux.bin and this will create a 512 byte file
linux.bin.
Edit Boot.ini so it will allow you to run linux, and make that point to c:\linux.bin.
That
way you first load NTloader, from there Grub/lilo, and from there you go into linux.
Take it from someone who's been there. ;)
Good luck.
Paul
