Ixthusdan Posted May 19, 2004 Report Share Posted May 19, 2004 I'm not sure about that. I have had Mandrake in various partitions on more than one hard drive, and have not had a problem. I have also used lilo rather than grub. I have seen that on hardware combos that seem to have problems, grub seems to work better. I also know that I have always installed lilo onto the mbr. Oh, windex must be in the first position of hard drive one, or it won't work, period. I also know that out of all the people using Mandrake, since this is a help board, we see the problems. It doesn't mean Mandrake is in trouble, it's just that we see the issues. I currently boot three different os's without a problem: SuSE 9. Mandy 10OE, and Windex xppro. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted May 19, 2004 Report Share Posted May 19, 2004 (edited) I've had it good and bad. The good was either with grub, BootMagic, or the ntldr but never with lilo. For a year or so I had probably 20 different installs or more with mandrake all over the place. One time having (not in any particular order, and the order changing). Mandrake's grub usually controlled these. Then red hat's and suse's grub did. hda win98 mandrake red hat and/or fedora debian slackware lfs share ============== Another time:hda win98 xppro hdb debian suse mandrake share I will say it seems the lilo/mandrake/xp boot problems have increased dramatically and it's not just the CE thing either.....it continues at a higher rate.....and should happen very rarely. Edited May 19, 2004 by bvc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neorion Posted May 19, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 19, 2004 I have 2 harddrive and it is on the first one i am pretty sure the error that came up was something like cant read head or write protected. so i just left it and tried in rescue. But does anyone know where i can get a boot floppy to boot from that to Linux without getting the file from linux. (since i cant get in). or can anyone show me a easier way to get in? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted May 20, 2004 Report Share Posted May 20, 2004 Could you try again and get the exact error? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted May 20, 2004 Report Share Posted May 20, 2004 But does anyone know where i can get a boot floppy to boot from that to Linux without getting the file from linux. (since i cant get in). no way that I know of but errors may help :unsure: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neorion Posted May 20, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 20, 2004 Well the error only happened the first time. When i went to rescue it appearedd to have worked. Ill still try to get the erorror Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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