GaryCat

I've never used grub, is there a HOWTO for it? I tried lilo using the rescue boot i.e. # lilo -C /mnt/etc/lilo.conf but got the error message "part_nowrite: read:: Input/output error" I wonder if my bios is having a problem with the 120Gb drive, its a ECS K7S5A with a 06/06/2002 bios. I'll check out grub... and then I'll download RedHat.

Hi, I managed to access my Mandrake install using the F1 and "rescue" options and copy the first 512 bytes of /dev/hdb5 on to a floppy from there. I then copied that to the XP partition and called it from the boot.ini. So I now have two options in my XP boot menu but the Linux option just gives me a blank screen with the letter "L" in the top corner. I'm going to try playing about with lilo again tonight to rewrite the bootloader to /dev/hdb5 unless anyone else has a better suggestion? Cheers Gary.

Hi. I have a 40Gb primary disk containing WindowsXP and a 120Gb secondary containing an 80Gb NTFS partition and a 40Gb Linux partition (hdb5/6/7) into which I installed Mandrake. During installation LILO was written automatically to the primary disk overwriting the Windows XP boot but when I boot it, it just shows "L" and hangs. I have recovered the WinXP boot using fixmbr but I would like to be able to install the bootloader on hdb5 and use the WinXP boot menu but I can't do this as the mandrake installer doesn't give me the option to put it anywhere else or create a boot floppy. Is there some way to force the installer to give me a choice of where to put the bootloader? Any help much appreciated. Gary