MDK 10 and XP
 

Hi people

Heres my question...

I've been flirting with linux (mostly mandrake) for a few months now and had no problem in installing mandrake 9 on my spare second ide hard drive. I was able to select either xp or mandrake without a problem.

i recently purchased a new sata 120 gig HDD and installed xp on that and installed my older ide 80 gig as a secind drive. i wanted to install mandrake 10 on the older secind drive,

Unfortunately everytime i try and install linux on the second drive and select xp from the bootloader, XP will not load up saying that NT bootloader is missing!!!! i n ever had this problem.

i know that when i formatted my new sata on win xp pro installer it said it needed to copy a few files to the older ide. but i dont know why thisis happening.

mandrake detects both drives!! is there known issue with mandrake being installed on a 2 hdd system when xp is on sata and the mandrake distro is installed on the second ide hdd??

help as i really wanna get to use and know linux

Welcome to LQ.

Can you post a copy of your bootloader configuration file?

sorry to sound thick but how can i do that?

also i am itching to try and install mandrake 10 again now but scared i'll riun xp

Depending on what bootloader you are using it will be called lilo.conf or grub.conf (or /boot/groub/menu.lst)

at the moment my pc only has xp on it with the second hdd empty fi rme ti install mandrake 10

Well you will need to install the other operating system before you can even start to dual boot.

There's a good tutorial on dual booting Mandy & XP on mandrakeusers.org.
Here's a link: mandy & XP