Mandrake booting problems

[MarkUsG3]

Hi - Hopefully someone can help me out with this.

First, let me start with my system config.

P300/256 MB RAM, 1 6.4 GIG IDE Drive, one 4.5 GIG SCSI Hard Drive. AHA 2940 Adaptec SCSI Controller.

The system is configured to boot off the IDE drive, which currently has Windows 2000 Professional installed. I had been running Corel Linux off the SCSI drive and using it's version of the lilo boot loader without any problems. Yesterday, I went ahead and reformatted the SCSI drive and installed Linux Mandrake 7.2 and let it use the MBR on the IDE drive. The install went fine - but when it went to boot it only got as far as "Stage 1" and then halted. I could use the boot disk and boot without any problems. I then went ahead a used FDISK /MBR to erase the master boot record (this is correct yes?), and then the W2k bootloader took over (anyone care to explain why that happened, I figured I would have had to do a W2K bootsector repair?). I re-installed Mandrake (about 4 times now). Still have the same problem. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Mark

[Phreakee]

The reason that the Win2k boot loader took over was b/c you did the fdisk /mbr from a windows boot disk and it used that command.com to replace the mbr which brings back the Win2k boot loader.

(I could be wrong about this, hopefully someone who knows for sure will post!)
As for lilo not working you might need to install lilo with the linear option. I think I read that somewhere! I hope I am not steering you in the wrong direction, but at least it will be something else for you to research.