I took the plunge today and tried installing Mandrake 9.2 on the new hard disk I just added to my machine. The installation process went smoothly, but when I rebooted for the first time, "Lilo" or whatever that bootloader thing is called just gave me a screen full of 99s. "99 99 99 99 99 99 etc." [Grumble...My heart has little joy in it for Linux at the moment...]
I rebooted with the Mandrake CD and restored my Windows boot record (thank God, since I have months of work on that drive I can't afford to lose).
I don't want to screw with my MBR any more; how can I create a boot CD with a bootloader that will let me choose between Windows 2000 and Mandrake?
My computer configuration is as follows:
HD 1: NTFS partition with Win2K
HD 2: FAT32 partition for data, Ext3 partition with Mandrake 9.2 (I think)
I'd rather make a boot CD than a floppy, because my floppy drive is inside my tower, inaccessible (not enough bays on the front). I'd really appreciate any help; I've read the documentation on Lilo and Grub and I don't understand any of it.
If there is a safe way to get a dual-boot going without using a floppy or CD, I'd like to know that too.
Paul