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| 156073 | 2003-06-29 04:23:00 | I recently purchased Mandrake 9.1 and installed it on my daughters WIN2000 Comp. I installed it on a separate partition set up with Partition Magic and I also installed Boot Magic. The install went OK except the Mandrake boot manager took over and I was only able to get back into WIN2000 with the Boot Magic Rescue floppy. When win2000 was the last OS used I get the choice of Mandrake or WIN2000 on boot up, but when Mandrake was the last OS used WIN 2000 is not an option at the next boot up and I have to use the rescue floppy to get WIN2000 back. I am also planning to install Mandrake on my own WinXP machine on a separate hard drive. How do I fix the boot problem on my daughters comp and avoid the same problem on my WinXP comp. | i-gordon (962) | ||
| 156074 | 2003-06-29 04:54:00 | I suspect that Boot Magic and the Linux boot manager (lilo or grub) are having an argument . I'm not sure how to resolve it . It's could be that the linux handler is located in the MBR of the physical drive, and hitting Boot Magic's one . If so, you could try installing the linux on in the MBR of its own partition . Otherwise, I don't see why you should need an extra boot handler . Linux seems to work OK with most versions of MS Windows . (I might be wrong about W2000 . ;-) . . . check the HOWTOs about windows/Linux multibooting) . Otherwise, you'd probably have to do an "Experet" installation of Mandrake, so you can tell it not to load a boot manager, and relynon Boot Magic . A Q+D method is to have a boot floppy for Linux, :D , and don't ever boot it from the HD . That works quite well, and it means there's no interference with the fragile MS stuff . Its reasonable, because the kernel on a floppy is quite small . I'm pretty sure you'll be OK with XP . |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 156075 | 2003-06-29 05:27:00 | Mandrake 9.0 and Win 2000 live together on the same hard drive no problem (well they do here). Which boot manager are you using... you should be able to add an entry for Win2000. | Dolby Digital (160) | ||
| 156076 | 2003-06-29 08:44:00 | I am not sure what is causing the problem here - but I think I would install the Linux boot loader (are you using LILO or GRUB?) in the MBR getting rid of Boot Magic. I have stuck with LILO so far - it boots Linux and Win2k very well. LILO.conf should look something like this: boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/message lba32 default=Win2k image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-3 label=linux initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18-3.img read-only root=/dev/hda5 other=/dev/hda1 label=Win2k ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Make your changes and issue /sbin/lilo to commit to the mbr. John |
JohnD (509) | ||
| 156077 | 2003-06-29 08:46:00 | Supposed to be a new line after "prompt" and no space in "boot"! | JohnD (509) | ||
| 156078 | 2003-06-30 02:42:00 | I only used Boot Magic because it is part of the Partition Magic Program and I thought that being such a common program that it would be well sorted out to be compatible with Linux seems as though I was wrong. I havent been able to get back to my daughters Comp she has an Excell program going and I got the message to stay away. I'll try installing Mandrake on my machine and see what happens. thanks for the replys Guys. If you have any linux stuff for me I'm new to it so keep it simple for me Ian Gordon |
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