Mandrake 10 Hosed My Particians
 

I installed mandrake 10. The install went perfectly. Then upon reboot I realized I was jacked. WHen Lilo started all I got was the "L" and I was hung up. I grabbed my XP Pro CD and went to restore my MBR - XP Pro hung up..... I could not even reinstall XP from CD. So I took and old Win 98 startup disk and tried to load it. Hung on boot also!!!

Finally, I took SUSE 9.0 Pro..... Had it wipe out all my particians then I could Use the XP disk to repartician and install XP. I then Reimaged all my particians using Ghost.

OK now, I didn't blame Mandrake 10...... until I tried reinstalling it again...... BOOM.... same problem..... Beware!!!! Mandrake 10 Has serious issues!!!

hmmm.. there is another thread on this issue. I'm starting to wonder if it is hardware related.. what are your sys specs??

btw.. I had no problems installing with WinXP... :)

P4 2.4 - OC'd to 3.01
ASUS P4P800 MoBo
1 ghz kingston PC3500 DDR
GeForce Ti 4200 GFX CARD
Soundblaster Live 5.1

Mandrake 9.0 - 9.2 installed fine on this system.

I have Mandrake 10 Community running on P4P800 Deluxe.
I have two physical disks, XP on MBR of hda, MDK10 on MBR of hdb, and I use bios to toggle between them at startup. I'm so ignorant of dual boot techniques that I physically detached the cables of hda when I did the Mandrake install. (It worked, but now I have to make a smoother boot process after the fact.)

Bro.... that's a rough way to enjoy linux.... dual boot. M10 may dualboot fine on your system.... I think my problems are probably unique to only a few system types with certian hardware..... I am interested to see if anyone eles has this same problem.

Just had same problem here. PII and HD6Go ( WD AC36400L).

0 - fdisk 2Go(win) and 4Go(linux)
1 - install w98SE
2 - install mandrake 10.0
3 - reboot : Lilo prompt
A - Win98 fails immediatly (blinking cursor)
B - mandrake boot OK.

Partitions seems all OK. I'm investigating
D.

Well it seems that the explanation is there :

https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7959#c14

"if you do not create new partitions during the installation, but just use an existing one, everything goes fine"

Edit: Sorry, posted in wrong thread.