The problem most likely stems from the way the partitions were made.
Use the SysCom partitioning tool to delete the extended partition and then
to create it again with however many logical linux partitions you choose
then during the Mandrake installation use DiskDrake only for mounting and
formatting the partitions.
The only time I have used the SysCom OS Wizard was to install BeOS and that
is because the Be bootloader is not installed unless written to the MBR and
the OS Wizards allows SysCom to pick-up the boot record.
All the other installations on that system were done by setting the BIOS to
boot from CD-ROM
and inserting the installation CD. When the install completes all that is
necessary is to toggle the needed partition as bootable and it is added to
SysCom as a boot option.
I have done it a few times. I have a 45GB and a 15GB hd on that system with
all OSes being booted by SysCom2000.
Those include Win98, BeOS, Storm, Caldera, Suse, VA Red Hat, and Mandrake
and I have tried others.
Charles (-:
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Stephen L LaBelle
> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 4:10 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [newbie] Install Problems with V7.2 and SystemCommander 2000
> V5.04
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I am attempting to multi-boot Windows 98, Windows 2000, and
> Mandrake 7.2
> on an intel platform with System Commander.
>
> I have the Windows 98 and Windows 2000 boots installed and functional
> on the first harddrive HDA. The Windows 98 is there to house System
> Commander. Everything on that first drive works.
>
> I run the custom Mandrake install, not the "full expert" but
> the middle
> choice. I choose to install Mandrake directly, so I do not use the
> System Commander O/S create utility. I just let System
> Commander find it
> upon the reboot. BTW, this method works for custom installs of Red Hat
> or SUSE which I have done several times in the past.
>
> The Mandrake install is onto the 2nd drive fully, HDB, and I
> get all the
> way thru the install. System Commander finds the new Linux, but when I
> try to boot Mandrake I get the following:
>
> "panic unable to mount root filesystem" or something of that
> matter.
>
> I took a look at the Linux partitions from the System Commander 2000
> disk partioning tool and see that the /boot partition is there and
> identified as a Linux EXT2 file system, which is good.
> However the rest
> of the Mandrake install space is not sliced into partitions, it is a
> single big partition that System Commander see as a generic
> Unix single
> partition. That would seem to be the problem, is there something
> special I need to know about Mandrake???
>
> Can someone advise me? As said earlier I have been able to do the same
> setup methodology with Red Hat and SUSE and it worked.
>
> Thanks for anyones help....
>
> Steve
>
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