mandrake 8.0 startup probs

[nakedredneck]

installed mandrake 8.0 on a p2 350 296m ram, double hard drive, installed mandrake on the second hard drive wondering how to configure for a dual bootup, where i can choose which system to startup ie: win98 or mandrake, after install the harddrive is unaccessable from dos or win98. would like to know how to get mandrake to start from bootup or to choose which system to start, any ideas would be helpful. not computer illiterate, just new to mandrake. thanks...

[Linuxcool]

When you installed mandrake, it probably installed the boot loader program in the mbr of the second drive. That's why it won't boot into linux. Did you make a boot disk when you installed linux? If you did, you can use that to boot into linux. I believe that you can choose between which boot loader to install: lilo or grub. Which did you install?

[nakedredneck]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Linuxcool:
don't know, when it got to the do you want to setup a printer it restarted on its own, any idea as to what happened? would definatly like to run linux, thinking about booting from my win98 boot disk and wiping the hd if it will let me and starting over..good idea? bad idea? let me know
:confused:

[bdg1983]

It's probably best to start over, this time selecting 'Expert Mode' for the install. I would imagine Mandrake 8 does have a expert mode.

This should give you more control over what is installed, partitioning and where the bootloader is installed.

If you don't want to use a bootdisk all the time, then you have 2 choices.

Install lilo/grub to the Linux partition on the 2nd drive, but you will either have to use a bootdisk or keep changing the boot order from the 1st hd to the 2nd and making the linux boot/root partition active. Not the best solution.

The other would be to install lilo/grub to the mbr of the 1st hd which would allow you to dualboot Win98 and Mandrake without having to use a bootdisk or changing anything in the bios.

Hope this helps.

[snivlle]

All you need is a copy of a commercial boot loading application. aka. . .PowerQuest's Boot Magic or System Commander by Vcom. I have a bootable floppy disk with a simple, "older" version of BootMagic on it.. .let me know if you want it.

I can make a self extracting floppy "image" of it and @mail it to you.

[Barre311]

www.xosl.net (http://www.xosl.net) has a booting program that may help. Visit the site and check their FAQ.