I downloaded the Mandrake 10.1 Official DVD, burned it and had it use some unpartitioned free space on one of my drives...no problems, installed fine. At the end of the installation the last step is to reboot, I did so....boot straight to Windows....ok(?). After trying over and over again I finally managed to get the LiLo bootloader up so I could select the OS to boot. I boot into KDE and start looking around and getting a feel for it.
Anyway now I'm back configuring the boot loader cause it's not working exactly how I want it. I had LiLo (Graphical Interface) selected and boots to "/dev/hdc" (more on that in a moment) with a 10 second delay at first. Now I want to make some changes to it because it's not quite what I want.
Firstly I changed the boot delay to 30 seconds and applied the settings but the bootloader now had a 6 second delay...right, it was 10, then when I changed it to 30 the bootloader auto-selects in 6 seconds...go figure. Not the problem at hand though. I click next, Modify the Windows boot and select it as default. I assume the "Default" OS is the one it will auto load to if one is not manually selected, no? At any rate it still defaults to Mandrake despite the default being set to Windows and I need to change that.
Anyway here may lie some useful information. The boot loader lets me pick from the following partitions:
/dev/hdc
/dev/sda
/dev/hdc2
/dev/hdc5
/dev/hdc7
/dev/fd0
Right now I have it set "/dev/hdc" FYI. Don't ask me why, that's what it was set at default.
So could someone give me some pointers here or please slap me with the Common Sense stick? Thank you.