Quoting Raffaele Belardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Martin,
> 
> It's much easier if you have the first MDK installation CD. Insert it, 
> reboot the PC and at the splash screen hit F1, then type
> # rescue
> and press <enter>.
> After some loading, you'll be presented with a menu, where you should 
> select 'Reinstall boot loader'. This should detect your windows and 
> linux partitions and reinstall lilo in the MBR.
> 
> What happened is pretty normal, Windows assumes it's the only OS on the 
> disk and rewrites the MBR with it's own loader.
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> raffaele
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Argh i recently installed a win boot on my comp which already had my linux
> boot 
> > on and now all i can boot on is windows.
> > 
> > I have two HDs
> > 
> > HD1:
> > 30gig
> > Partitions:
> > Mandrake linux, swap, home, windows FAT32 (mounted on linux) and a Windows
> boot
> > 
> > HD2:
> > 150gb
> > just storage, ext3 formatted.
> > 
> > I pretty sure i didnt touch any of my other partitions whilst installing 
> > windows, and i had 5gb space on my hd so i didnt need to fiddle with
> diskdrake.
> > Any ideas anyone? Do i need a mandrake boot disc or something?
> > 
> > Thanks, All help is much appreciated.
> > Martin Brandt
> > 
> 
> 
Thanks to both of you. Now i just gotta find out why my windows boot doesnt 
detect my FAT32 partition which i created in Linux a while ago (before i 
installed win boot).

Ill be back with more problems soon :)
Martin Brandt


-- 

Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? 
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Reply via email to