I installed Mandrake Linux 9.1 and I am also using Windows XP Pro on the hard drive (dual boot). In the past, I have had no problem with this, because this is like the 3rd or 4th time I have installed both.

Anyway, the first problem which I don't know if it is related or not, is I can't use LILO as my bootloader. I have to use Grub. Grub is fine, but obviously there is a problem which shouldn't exist. I went to reinstall the bootloader and it said: FATAL: UNSAFE may only be booted by floppy or mba, or something.

I tried Grub, and it works fine.

If anybody knowledgeable could help me, I'd appreciate it.

what does your lilo conf say? #2 what are the partitions and #3 what is the grub config say.