On Fri, 09 Apr 2004 10:56:30 +1000 Stephen Kuhn disseminated the following:
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?EZiest way - DELETE XP.
Can't argue with that.
However, if you really must keep XP around, do the install by booting from the
Mandrake CD *after* you have XP installed (leave some unpartitioned space, at
least 5 or 6 GB). Sounds from what you said you installed Mandrake from within
Windoze, not the way to go, AFAIK. If you install Mandrake by booting from the
CD, it will use the unpartitioned space, and install LILO with a Win option, and
play nicer.
That's pretty much what I did, although I didn't describe it well. I had four partitions, with Windows in the first and windows programs and stuff in the second. The third and fourth were empty FAT32s. I booted from the Mandrake CD, and replaced those empty partitions with the recommended arangement for Mandrake, leaving the Windows ones untouched. Lilo was installed, the Linux options working fine, but the Windows one led to the freeze.
Yes, deleting XP would be nice, but there's Windows software that I need to use that by all accounts doesn't work properly under Linux emulation.
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