Wendell
You do not need to uninstall Sys. Com. just reinstall it on top of itself.
This will allow it to pick up all active boot sectors including Mandrake
Charles
.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wendell Gragg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 16, 2000 9:11 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Trouble booting 7.0 from 2nd drive with System
Commander
> Charles,
>
> Thanks for the reply! I guess I just don't understand System Commander.
I
> used to use Boot Magic and someone told me this was better. I also had
used
> an older version of Linux that was on this drive when I installed SC and
it
> did not pick it up, which confused me.
>
> Anyway, I will completely de-install system commander and reinstall it and
> see what happens. I'll let you know.
>
> Wendell
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Charles A Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 9:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Trouble booting 7.0 from 2nd drive with System
> Commander
>
>
> > Wendell
> > Did you start the Linux installation from SystemCommander. If you did
> not
> > then manually adding Linux to the boot options will not work you will
need
> > to re-install SysCo in order for it to pick up the Linux boot record.
> >
> > Charles
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Wendell Gragg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 10:28 PM
> > Subject: [newbie] Trouble booting 7.0 from 2nd drive with System
Commander
> >
> >
> > > Apparently I have done something wrong here. In used System Commander
> > 2000
> > > to partition my 2nd Hard drive as follows:
> > >
> > > 1st partition: /boot 100 MB
> > > 2nd Partition / >10 GB
> > > 3rd partion: swap 128 MB
> > >
> > > I then installed linux mandrake using Drakx. When it asked me about
> Lilo,
> > I
> > > told it to put it in the /boot. It did not ask me about whether to
> place
> > it
> > > in the MBR or not. Everything seemed to go ok, but when I rebooted
and
> > > System Commander came up, I interrupted it and added linux, telling it
> to
> > > boot from the first partition. When I tried to boot from it, System
> > > Commander told me that the boot record was bad and would not boot it.
> > >
> > > Can someone give me an idea as to what I may have done wrong?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Wendell Gragg
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
