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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# Stephen LaBelle #
# Senior Unix Systems Administrator #
# Metropolitan State College of Denver #
# Denver, Colorado USA #
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