newbie requesting help with a dual boot machine
 

Hello,

Well I've already mucked things up, but I'm hoping someone out there has some experience with dual boot systems? Any help would be appreciated, but please bear with me and give clear instructions as I'm brand new to Linux.

I have a 2-hard-drive machine, with Windows 2000 Professional on my primary drive, and my secondary drive was empty, so I slated it for Linux. I have a cd for Mandrake Linux 7.2 which I used to install Linux to the second drive. So I currently have Windows 2000 Pro on my primary drive and Mandrake Linux 7.2on my secondary drive.

FYI, my primary drive is partitioned into two NTFS drives, and my secondary drive is partitioned into one NTFS drive and one FAT32 drive. I installed Linux on the FAT32 partition of the secondary drive. Now, when I boot my machine, the Linux Boot Loader prompts me which operating system I want to run...

Linux
Failsafe
Windows
Floppy

When I choose Windows, it tries to boot but says...

booting Windows.

root (hd1, 1)

system is FAT32

NTLDR is missing
Press Any Key to Continue

I thought hd1 referred to my secondary drive (and hd0 would be my primary) which leads me to believe it is trying to load Windows off of the Linux partition on the secondary drive. More evidence to this is my primary drive running Windows has an NTFS file system on both partitions, NOT a FAT32. The Linux partition of my secondary drive is FAT32.

Any ideas how I can get the Linux Loader to look in the right place for Windows? Any insight into what's happening and how I can fix it will be appreciated.

FYI, when I choose to boot Linux, it loads successfully.

As another quick sidenote/question -> I'm brand new to Linux and so far the only problem I've had with Linux is I cannot always shut down my machine through Linux. I click K->Logout and it usually just returns to the Linux OS, though once it actually shut down my machine and displayed the proper Linux shutdown screen. I have had to physically power down my machine with the on/off button every other time. Any ideas on this?

Thanks,

Scott

My advice is basically to get hold of a new version of Mandrake. It's now called Mandriva, and the latest version is called Mandriva-2007. I don't know the exact version number, but probably 10.3, or maybe 11.0. So the version of Mandrake you've got is years old. It should still work fine though.

Root (hd1,1) refers to the second partition on the second drive. The grub bootloader starts counting at 0.