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Hello, I managed to reinstall Grub, thank you! I used the install disk and went to the system repair section. In there there is an option to reinstall Grub, I used it and it failed because there where 2 hard disks installed and Linux was on the second one. So I unplugged the first hard disk (the one containing Windows) and repeated the procedure and it worked like a charm! Thanks!

Thank you for the prompt reply! One more question, I have a live CD of 2010.0 (not 2010.1 !), do you think I can use that one, boot in live mode and enter the grub command from there hence avoiding the need to do all the mount stuff? Once I am back in my installationhen I would reinstall grub from 2010.1 . Thank you!

Hello, I have an installation of 2010.1 and I would like to reinstall grub which has been deleted by mistake while trying to repair a windows install on another HD. Any easy way of doing so? Thanks! [moved from Installing Mandriva by spinynorman]

Thanks, I stick with the free driver :)

Apologies but I am not sure here why there is the need of a kernel, I was thinking I needed only the driver, ie aa package called x11-driver-video-nvidia71xx and this is not there. This is what I see in the current version of the driver... This NVIDIA driver should be used with GeForce 6 and later cards, including the associated Quadro cards. For older cards, the packages x11-driver-video-nvidia96xx and x11-driver-video-nvidia71xx should be used instead... Confused :(

I have a TNT2 card. I am using the free driver now but the screen is moved to the right and is not that nice :( It used to work with 2009.0 so I am really not sure what happened. Thanks!

Hello, I just upgraded to 2009.1 from 2009.0 and now I do not find anymore the NVIDIA proprietary driver x11-driver-video-nvidia71. I see th 180 and 96 but not the 71. Any ideas? Thanks

Hi, I read in a few posts that having both KDE4 and KDE3 installed can cause issues. I got both and I have not found any so far. Am I missing something? Thanks [moved from Installing Mandriva by spinynorman]

So if I want to install KDE3 on 2009 after I have got KDE4, am I out of luck? Thanks!

Is there a tutorial somewhere? Thanks!!!

Hi, I need to help my aunt and we live in different towns. What is the easiest way for me to take over her PC remotely? We both have Mandriva 2008 Spring. Thanks!

Ah, OK so maybe it was because I used the proprietary ATI driver... Anyway my aunt now is happy with her new Linux install and is already using her digital camera so I will leave it her for a bit :) Thanks!

I will not try it on my aunt PC again but on 2 out of 2 occasions Mandriva (X11 as you pointed out) crashed when I did close session (close session, not stop or restart the PC). As you said maybe it was just bad luck, we can leave this one to the futures generations :) Many thanks for your help, brilliant as usual!

Finally I figured it out! 'Ctrl'+'Alt'+'-' did the trick, now nice small size :) thanks again! As a final thing I now believe that the corrupt of the xorg file in the first place was caused by using the exit session button. Can it be right? Thanks

I have deleted the xorg.config file and created a new one. Now Mandriva starts OK with the CRT monitor too but the text, windows and icons look huge. I am using the same resolution as Win XP does with the the same monitor so it's not a resolution setting problem. I am really not sure what it can be :( Any ideas? Thanks!

Wow, you were right, it's a monitor config problem. The monitor she has it's an old CRT one. I still have not configured it but I tried with another flat screen monitor and it worked. I now need to find out how to configure the CRT. When I change the monitor settings and do test it goes black so I cannot even see how to leave the test Any pointers? Thank you!!!!

Hi, I did a fresh install of One 2008 Spring on my aunt's PC. The live booted up OK, Mandriva started and the live install went OK. So I did setup a few users, a bit of KDE config and then went to do terminate session and the user interface disappeared (it seemed to crash) and no more prompt, nothing! I then restarted and half way the booting process it stopped with no messages or command prompt just a black screen. I tried the safe mode and it booted on the command line but when I type xinit then a flash on the screen and it all becomes black. I tought it may be the APCI problem so I added nolapic noapic apci=off on the command line of GRUB but nothing... I then tried to reboot from the live disk but again no joy :( Anyone any ideas? My aunt is very depressed and so I am :( Thanks!

Fixed adding this lines to the Windows entry: map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) I suppose this is a bug in 2008.1 as I never did to manually edit that. Note that also before 2008.1 bootdrake was automatically recognizing thw windows disk and adding the entry automatically. With 2008.1 I had to add it manually...

Hi, I have to HD, the first one with XP and the second with Mandriva. Since 10 I use Grub on the second hard Disk to dual boot with joy but since the ugrade from 2008.0 to 2008.1 Linux still boots fine but Win XP fails with the error: Fylesystem type unknwon partition type 0x7 root(hd1,0) chainloader +1 My configuration is below (the boot devices in bios are 1: Disabled 2:CDRom 3: HD1) more /boot/grub/device.map (fd0) /dev/fd0 (hd0) /dev/hdb (hd1) /dev/hda more /boot/grub/menu.lst timeout 10 color black/cyan yellow/cyan gfxmenu (hd0,0)/boot/gfxmenu default 3 title linux kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=UUID=2e65ecfa-017d-4ef2-be2b- 565e51004141 noapic nolapic splash=silent vga=788 initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd.img title linux-nonfb kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux-nonfb root=UUID=2e65ecfa-017d-4ef2 -be2b-565e51004141 noapic nolapic initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd.img title failsafe kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=failsafe root=UUID=2e65ecfa-017d-4ef2-be 2b-565e51004141 failsafe initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd.img title windows root (hd1,0) makeactive chainloader +1 more /etc/fstab # Entry for /dev/hdb1 : UUID=2e65ecfa-017d-4ef2-be2b-565e51004141 / ext3 defaults 1 1 # Entry for /dev/hdb6 : UUID=a0e03146-2f84-11d9-9539-bd101a5d4ac3 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 # Entry for /dev/hdb7 : UUID=e74e38d5-70ce-4e14-ba68-4ef35e63dc52 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2 # Entry for /dev/hdb5 : UUID=5006b93e-275b-4b73-9b51-9105788e800a swap swap defaults 0 0 # Entry for /dev/hda1 : UUID=646C81856C8152AA /media/hd ntfs-3g defaults 0 0 # Entry for /dev/hda5 : UUID=D0303539303527BC /media/hd2 ntfs-3g defaults 0 0 # Entry for /dev/hda6 : UUID=1A9C3C089C3BDD47 /media/hd3 ntfs-3g defaults 0 0 Anyone any ideas? Thanks!

Personally I did a live install. It took me just 45 minutes to get all my stuff back :)

If I do that will I have problems with the NVidia drivers? Thanks

Hi, I have got an installation with Mandriva Spring ONE (I need to proprietary NVIdia drivers) and I would like to upgrade to 2008 ONE. What is the best way forward? Thanks!

Thanks to everyone! I actually yes have an NVIDIA card and when I did the update I was asked to select a kernel source and I chose one but I did not update the kernel. uname --kernel-release 2.6.17-13mdvlegacy Anyway I did XFdrake and now everything works! So I chill out a bit and then upgrade to 2008 :) Many thanks!!!

Hi, I updated my 2007 Spring installation with the latest updates and Xorg was one. Now after the install Xorg is not staring complaining that there are no screens :( Any idea of where I should start from? Or maybe better to upgrade to 2008 directly? Thanks!

Yes indeed I found it on easyurpmi.zarb.org and probably before I was using the other one. Thanks again!