On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 00:43, Lord Storm wrote: > <SNIP> > > Storm, old china plate, Windows ALWAYS needs to be installed FIRST - no > > matter what - it's a Microsoft thing - it will rewrite your partition > > tables no matter what - and if you hose up your Windows installation > > after mucking around with GNU/linux, well, you're going to have to blast > > it all out and start again. > > > > For whatever reason, the MS family of OS's refuses to be on anything - > > or rather, boot from anything except for HDA1 (or the entire HDA for > > that matter); by common practise, Windows is install first, then > > everything else after that. Can't get around it. > > > <snip> > Windows 2k was installed first then mandrake then partition scrambled. > "FIXMBR" "FIXBOOT" did not work at all. I know that Windows has to be > installed first (been using mandrake since 9.0) but this is the first time I > have encountered this problem with MDK in 10. Some how it could be the bios > level F4 bios its now F6 and Mandrakesoft may be configuring stuff for the F6 > BIOS now. > > Also I do not know enough about lilo to configure it after mandrake is > installed. > > I think ill be doing the beta run with MDK 10.1 and all candidates I just hope > they anounce it on Distrowatch.
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