Re: [newbie] Reclaiming Mandrake boot

2004-03-10 Thread Troy Thomas Hall
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

Re: [newbie] Reclaiming Mandrake boot

2004-03-10 Thread Raffaele Belardi
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] wrot

Re: [newbie] Reclaiming Mandrake boot

2004-03-10 Thread martin brandt
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 . > After some loading, you'll be presented with a menu, where you should > select

Re: [newbie] Reclaiming Mandrake boot

2004-03-10 Thread Raffaele Belardi
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 . After some loading, you'll be presented with a menu, where you should select 'Reinstall boot loader'. This should detect your windows and

Re: [newbie] Reclaiming Mandrake boot

2004-03-10 Thread John Richard Smith
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?) eith

[newbie] Reclaiming Mandrake boot

2004-03-10 Thread martin brandt
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