On Friday 09 Sep 2005 17:16, Iggep wrote: > On Friday 09 September 2005 11:11 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Saturday 10 Sep 2005 08:05, SnapafunFrank wrote: > > > Anne Wilson wrote: > > > >I'm new to laptops, and need to keep XP, so I've re-sized > > > > partitions and started a Mandriva install. I've reached that > > > > early crunch-time, when the partition table is to be written. > > > > Before I go any further are there any caveats? > > > > > > > >Anne > > > > > > Yeah, been here and still haven't found out how to stop the " Heart > > > in the mouth " thing. Just gulp big time. > > > > OK - did that :-) Now - where to store boot loader. I've always put > > it on MBR before. Does that raise any problems with XP? > > > > Anne > > No, sure doesn't. I loaded Grub on the MBR and it works like a champ. > XP doesn't notice.
Thanks. I did that, and got the blank screen at bootup. Booted with 'noapic nolapic' and I'm in. Haven't tried windows again yet, though ;-) Anne
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