On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 10:17, Owain Sutton wrote: > Extreme newbie here...... > > I installed Mandrake 10 onto spare space on my main hard drive, which > has XP in the first partition. Everything went fine on the Linux side - > but choosing Windows from the boot options caused a freeze, with a > flashing cursor on black screen. The XP recovery console couldn't cope > with the Linux partitions being in the FAT, so I ended up with a > complete repartition, reformat and reinstall of XP. Not wanting to go > through that twice, is there anything I should be doing with Mandrake > other than following the default setup?
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