JediSB Posted March 20, 2004 Report Share Posted March 20, 2004 (edited) I've installed both Mandake 8 and Mandrake 9 before and never had any problems. But I've always installed it on partition of a single drive, dual booting with Windows XP. This time I tried installing Mandrake on a second second hard drive I've added to my machine. I had a few issues this time. The system wouldn't boot from the first install CD. I checked the MD5 hash values efore burning and the ISO files were fine. I burned the discs with Nero 5.5 and checked the "verifiy written data" field. Everything is fine there. I even tried setting the BIOS to "CD-ROM" for all boot devices and the system still booted into Windows from the first HD. So I created an install floppy using rawwritewin.exe which got me into the installation just fine. The second hard drive is set up with the Linux swap partition first and then the ext3 partition located after that. I installed Linux on this second partition, hdb1, and choose to install LILO on hdb, after trying it on hdb1 and it not working. I had planned on using the Windows Boot Loader to boot into Linux, as I had done with previous Mandrake installs. The installation went fine with the exception of an error in configuring my modem, but when I rebooted I couldn't boot into Linux. The install did not prompt me to create a boot floppy (as Mandrake 9 did) so I fired up rawwritewin.exe and created a boot floppy by using the "boot.iso" file, which I assume was the correct one, as cdrom.img would only boot to an install menu. If that is incorrect, please let me know. Since I can't boot into Linux from the boot floppy I can't follow the steps in the link provided above to use the Windows boot loader. I'm guessing its because Linux is installed on the second hard drive. Did I leave out something? What do I need to do to get Linux to boot from the floppy? Thanks in advance. Edited March 21, 2004 by JediSB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AussieJohn Posted March 20, 2004 Report Share Posted March 20, 2004 It would not do any harm to do a pretend "UPGRADE" by putting in your CDROM-2 to start then changing to CDROM-1 when it asks. this is so easy to do and gives you a chance to again carefully recheck things in the last part of settings. Give it a try. I use this method a lot when I screw up things and it sorts out troubles most of the time. OK. So it takes about 20 minutes to do but that is a lot quicker than spending hours and days trying to resolve especially if it works in the particular instance. Cheers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JediSB Posted March 21, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 21, 2004 I edited the original post as I went back and discovered I left out some details and got some other ones wrong. If anyone can re-read it and gain some insight I'd appreciate it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted March 21, 2004 Report Share Posted March 21, 2004 http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/errata.php3 can ya get to rescue mode? Then you could Mount your partitions under /mnt>Go to Console>chroot /mnt and either mk a boot floppy or a bootsect.lnx for the ntloader. http://www.mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=11887 Did ya format first? http://www.mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=12423 https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7959#c21 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JediSB Posted March 22, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2004 I'm really stupid. I set the BIOS to boot from the second hard drive and it booted into Linux just fine. I then used the procedure in the link above to boot from the Windows boot loader, ands switched the BIOS back. I'm up and running. Now if I can just fix that modem problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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