This is my first Linux installation, so I need some help.
I have an installation of XP on a SATA RAID0 array. I have installed Mandriva 2007 on the primary IDE master. When installing I expected to be given an option to install the GRUB or LILO bootloader in the MBR, but wasn't given this choice. Mandriva simply asked me which bootloader I wished to install (I selected GRUB) and on which drive or partition. I looked in the list to install on the windows RAID0. All other drives on the machine were listed, but not the RAID. I thought that by installing it there it would be easiest, because the BIOS would look there first.
Without the choice to install to the MBR I installed to the LINUX install drive (the primary IDE) thinking that if I set the BIOS to look there first, GRUB would take over. Then I could edit GRUB somehow to allow me to boot into XP as I wished.
I believe that my homework has shown me that people have done it both ways.
I set the BIOS to boot from the IDE drive. When I attempt to boot, I see the GRUB menu. But Mandriva does not start. It simply hangs at the next screen, which (I think?) has a progress bar at the bottom.
I can, of course, boot into Windows ok after setting the BIOS boot selection back to the RAID. But can't do anything to edit GRUB from windows.
I tried booting again to the install CD and using the "reinstall bootloader" option. This had the same result.
I can do anything that you recommend, short of breaking my windows installation. This is a first time user's problem, I'm sure, and ther eis no sensitive data to protect. The entire IDE drive is for LINUX, and I can repartition, reformat, or whatever. No problem.
Can anyone give me a hand?