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08-24-2004, 12:07 PM
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MDK 10 and XP
Hi people
Heres my question...
I've been flirting with linux (mostly mandrake) for a few months now and had no problem in installing mandrake 9 on my spare second ide hard drive. I was able to select either xp or mandrake without a problem.
i recently purchased a new sata 120 gig HDD and installed xp on that and installed my older ide 80 gig as a secind drive. i wanted to install mandrake 10 on the older secind drive,
Unfortunately everytime i try and install linux on the second drive and select xp from the bootloader, XP will not load up saying that NT bootloader is missing!!!! i n ever had this problem.
i know that when i formatted my new sata on win xp pro installer it said it needed to copy a few files to the older ide. but i dont know why thisis happening.
mandrake detects both drives!! is there known issue with mandrake being installed on a 2 hdd system when xp is on sata and the mandrake distro is installed on the second ide hdd??
help as i really wanna get to use and know linux
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08-24-2004, 12:11 PM
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Registered: Mar 2003
Location: Scotland
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Welcome to LQ.
Can you post a copy of your bootloader configuration file?
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08-24-2004, 12:17 PM
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sorry to sound thick but how can i do that?
also i am itching to try and install mandrake 10 again now but scared i'll riun xp
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08-24-2004, 12:21 PM
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Depending on what bootloader you are using it will be called lilo.conf or grub.conf (or /boot/groub/menu.lst)
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08-24-2004, 12:22 PM
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at the moment my pc only has xp on it with the second hdd empty fi rme ti install mandrake 10
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08-24-2004, 02:05 PM
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Well you will need to install the other operating system before you can even start to dual boot.
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08-24-2004, 05:21 PM
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Registered: Jul 2004
Location: London, England
Distribution: Mandrake 10.1
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There's a good tutorial on dual booting Mandy & XP on mandrakeusers.org.
Here's a link: mandy & XP
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