[newbie] Reclaiming Mandrake boot
Argh i recently installed a win boot on my comp which already had my linux boot on and now all i can boot on is windows. I have two HDs HD1: 30gig Partitions: Mandrake linux, swap, home, windows FAT32 (mounted on linux) and a Windows boot HD2: 150gb just storage, ext3 formatted. I pretty sure i didnt touch any of my other partitions whilst installing windows, and i had 5gb space on my hd so i didnt need to fiddle with diskdrake. Any ideas anyone? Do i need a mandrake boot disc or something? Thanks, All help is much appreciated. Martin Brandt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Reclaiming Mandrake boot
martin brandt wrote: Argh i recently installed a win boot on my comp which already had my linux boot on and now all i can boot on is windows. I have two HDs No problem really. Just slap CD1 installation disc in your drive and boot up on it, then at the first splash screen (from memory?) either esc or F1 go to consul and chose the rescue , and one of the options is to install lilo, which is does by reading your lilo.conf and exit. all done. reboot. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Reclaiming Mandrake boot
Martin, It's much easier if you have the first MDK installation CD. Insert it, reboot the PC and at the splash screen hit F1, then type # rescue and press enter. After some loading, you'll be presented with a menu, where you should select 'Reinstall boot loader'. This should detect your windows and linux partitions and reinstall lilo in the MBR. What happened is pretty normal, Windows assumes it's the only OS on the disk and rewrites the MBR with it's own loader. Good luck, raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Argh i recently installed a win boot on my comp which already had my linux boot on and now all i can boot on is windows. I have two HDs HD1: 30gig Partitions: Mandrake linux, swap, home, windows FAT32 (mounted on linux) and a Windows boot HD2: 150gb just storage, ext3 formatted. I pretty sure i didnt touch any of my other partitions whilst installing windows, and i had 5gb space on my hd so i didnt need to fiddle with diskdrake. Any ideas anyone? Do i need a mandrake boot disc or something? Thanks, All help is much appreciated. Martin Brandt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Reclaiming Mandrake boot
Quoting Raffaele Belardi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Martin, It's much easier if you have the first MDK installation CD. Insert it, reboot the PC and at the splash screen hit F1, then type # rescue and press enter. After some loading, you'll be presented with a menu, where you should select 'Reinstall boot loader'. This should detect your windows and linux partitions and reinstall lilo in the MBR. What happened is pretty normal, Windows assumes it's the only OS on the disk and rewrites the MBR with it's own loader. Good luck, raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Argh i recently installed a win boot on my comp which already had my linux boot on and now all i can boot on is windows. I have two HDs HD1: 30gig Partitions: Mandrake linux, swap, home, windows FAT32 (mounted on linux) and a Windows boot HD2: 150gb just storage, ext3 formatted. I pretty sure i didnt touch any of my other partitions whilst installing windows, and i had 5gb space on my hd so i didnt need to fiddle with diskdrake. Any ideas anyone? Do i need a mandrake boot disc or something? Thanks, All help is much appreciated. Martin Brandt Thanks to both of you. Now i just gotta find out why my windows boot doesnt detect my FAT32 partition which i created in Linux a while ago (before i installed win boot). Ill be back with more problems soon :) Martin Brandt -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Reclaiming Mandrake boot
Martin, I had already noticed that, a linux-formatted FAT32 partition was not recognized by Windows. I had to format it with DOS or Windows native tools. I don't know why, I assumed it was some slight incompatibility in the linux tools, but did not investigate. raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Raffaele Belardi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks to both of you. Now i just gotta find out why my windows boot doesnt detect my FAT32 partition which i created in Linux a while ago (before i installed win boot). Ill be back with more problems soon :) Martin Brandt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Reclaiming Mandrake boot
Raffaele Belardi wrote: Martin, I had already noticed that, a linux-formatted FAT32 partition was not recognized by Windows. I had to format it with DOS or Windows native tools. I don't know why, I assumed it was some slight incompatibility in the linux tools, but did not investigate. raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Raffaele Belardi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks to both of you. Now i just gotta find out why my windows boot doesnt detect my FAT32 partition which i created in Linux a while ago (before i installed win boot). Ill be back with more problems soon :) Martin Brandt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com yes, I've seen this same thing many times. Its extremely frustrating. FAT32 should be FAT32 *sigh* -- Troy T. Hall Registered Linux User #342150 Mandrake Club Member Abilene, KS. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
