Mandriva LE 2005/Win XP dual boot problems
First off i'm running: AMD 64 3400+ Processor
1GB RAM(no idea what type)
Radeon X800 XT Graphics card
1X Maxtor 6Y120P0 (120Gb, IDE set as Primary Master)
2X Promise Hard Drives (150Gb each in a RAID array)
2x TSSTcorp DVD Drives (one of which is a burner)
I already have a working copy of Win XP on my IDE drive. No problems there at all. My 1st RAID drive is formatted with NTFS so windows can use that fine.
I then went on to try and install Mandriva LE 2005 onto my 2nd RAID drive (Linux calls it sdb), install went perfect, I installed a LILO bootloader onto my IDE drive to get a dual boot however on restart the boot loader fail and just displayed a bunch of 9s over half my screen so I had to reboot, same thing happens every time.
I ran Windows fixmbr and i'm now in the same situation as before i installed Linux but with a HD with a working version of Linux on it that i can't use. I've tryed reinstalling it several time and with different settings but nothing will prompt it to work.
I know my CDs work because somehow in the past i have somehow got it to work on this same system, however i have no idea how. I think i installed windows after but I have no intention of reinstalling Windows this time.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Sorry if i've not been descriptive enough but if you need more info i'm sure i can find it out.
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