Well, obviously everybody in the world except for me knew that Windows will not run from the 2nd partition. I will just re-install. The Windows installation is new anyway and I have no real data that is lost.
I *do* think a warning in the installer would be a good idea though! doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wednesday, December 26, 2001): >On Monday 24 December 2001 09:28, you wrote: >> Hmmm... >> >> Mandrake Linux 8.1 is working fine, but if I restart the machine and >> choose "windows" at the startup screen, my Windows 2000 parition won't >> load. >> >> Any suggestions as to what I might try? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Doug Lerner, Tokyo > >I had that happen a couple of times (once with NT4.0 and once with W2K). The >following assumes that your W2K partition is the first one on your harddrive, >and that what probably happened is that lilo was written to the drive's mbr >and overwrote the winders bootloader, and that although lilo picked up on the >windows installation the windows installation is refusing to boot from >anything but it's own loader. If you've installed W2K on the second >partition, then it ain't gonna work, Winblows loader wants to be on the first >partition. Linux has no such preferences, and lilo will work from any >partition. My solution has been to use the NT bootloader to load lilo, which >I install on the first partiton of my linux installation. I can't be sure >that is what has happened to you, but if it is, it's recoverable, but an >extreme hassle involving re-installing Win from the install disks to recover >the mbr, after installing lilo on the first partition dedicated to linux (NOT >on a partition before W2K), and after making absolutely certain that the >linux boot disk works! If you determine that is the problem, the >instructions for using the NT (W2K is the same) bootloader are here: > >http://morse.colorado.edu/itplab/ipv6/dualboot.html > >And, this method is less than optimal if you use reiserfs, because if reiser >goes down its journaling filesystem will recover linux, but you'll have to go >through the process of redirecting the winders loader to lilo again. I don't >know about ext3, but to be safe you might want to use ext2. > >e. > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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