Mandrake installation Problem

tony2005 · 03-07-2004, 05:55 PM

several month ago i downloaded mandrake 9.1 burnt it on CD and installed it fine, but sadly took it off

now i try to reinstall it, it goes through fine no problems untill i reboot, which then a load of "01" appear in the middle of the screen and when i hit a key the system reboots and it hapens again

the only difference is that i have a 2nd hdd (which is now the primary) and mandrake is installed on the secondary hdd

and i installed a NIC which mandrake picks up fine

any ideas why?

vectordrake · 03-08-2004, 03:44 PM

Your bootloader is not configured right. I've had nothing but grief running with Windows on the first drive and Linux on the second, so I swapped 'em. My preferred installation now. Makes life easier. To boot to your Windows, you can enter the stanza:

Code:

other=/dev/hdb1
label="windows"
boot-as=0x80

and it'll give you an easy 2 drive 2 boot. That is, if you use LILO.

That said, I mean swap your drives and install LILO to the Linux MBR. You'll lose your grief.

tony2005 · 03-09-2004, 03:12 AM

lol thats what my m8 told me to doand it worked like a charm