On Tuesday 12 December 2000 12:13, you wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have a dualboot machine with windows98 installed on my primary
> harddisk (hda) and Linux Mandrake 7.2 on the other one (hdc).
>
> After installing Mandrake 7.2 with the new Xfree 4.0.1 graphics server,
> X seemed a little unstable (I have an ATI rage card), so I wanted to
> change the Xserver back to 3.3.6. When asked if I wanted to test the
> configuration I answered yes, and my computer froze completely. Only
> solution was to reset it, but when Mandrake booted, it complained that
> it could not mount the windows disk:
>
> wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1,
> or too many mounted file systems
>
> I then tried to boot directly into windows, but I couldn't do that
> either, the computer just froze. I made a windows boot floppy on
> another, similar machine, and succeded in booting into dos, but I cannot
> start windows. It claims that the configuration is not valid... Is
> there anything I can do about this, except reinstalling?
>
> Regards
>
> Morten Dyndgaard
Boot your windows boot disk into the DOS prompt
A>fdisk /mbr
That should fix windows
Now reinstall linux.
There is a great deal of information about the TNT2 Nvidia chipset and how to
configure it for acceleration on XFree 4.01 -- some pointers to the recent
successes can be found here.
http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php3?sid=20001109025852
Unfortunately, we cannot directly support hardware for which the drivers are
secret binaries, but the sites pointed to by article and replies at that URL
should help.
Civileme
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QA/Software testing
