Mandriva and XP.

gregf50 · 10-23-2005, 09:52 PM

Hi,

I reinstalled Windows XP on my DELL Inspiron 8500 laptop, with Mandriva on a partition. The problem is, I can't figure out how to activate the Mandriva partition! Can anyone help? Thanks,

Greg.

trevelluk · 10-24-2005, 02:47 PM

Do you mean that your not seeing the bootloader (Grub or LILO) any more? If this is the case, then I believe that if you boot from the Mandriva install disks, you should find an option to reinstall the bootloader.

gregf50 · 10-25-2005, 12:21 PM

Hi,

I actually have fought with Mandriva to try to set up a partition for WXP, but WXP doesn't like the partition, even though I set it up as FAT32. So, I installed only WXP, and am now going to try to dual boot Mandriva in. Unless there was something I have not tried with Mandriva. By the way, I did get the bootloader, and I tried both Grub and LILO. WXP just didn't like the partition.

Greg.