Installed linux, now i cant start up!

[JacobM5727]

Well i can, but, only to linux, and only with a floppy...

I had windows 2k installed, and installed linux on a seperate physical drive
I installed the boot loader (lilo) on the mbr, not on linux's partition.. maybe i shouldnt have?

well now, i cannot get to windows 2k, if i start up without the floppy, i get a whole screen of

Quote:

01010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101 01010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101 01010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101 0101010101010101010101010101010101

it sucks big time.. is there any way to fix it, maybe this bootloader is too old to work with an NTFS file system? if i got a newer version could i save my windows? thanks.. its kind of urgent

on a lighter issue: my scroll wheel doesnt work.. i could of sworn i had this issue last time i used mandrake too.. lol.. any help is appreciated

20g 2/18 win2k (ntfs)/data (fat32)
8g mandrake 8.1

[fyxxer32]

I had mouse issues on Mandrake 8.1 and 8.2 and havent resolved them as of yet.Issues like the dang thing wouldn't work at all. I'll bring a different mouse home from the station to try. Right now that drive is out of the machine.

[JacobM5727]

lol.. ok, well go me! i got my mouse working.. i looked in mandrake config and saw it had been set to two button, i set it to two button w/wheel and presto

that just leaves my huge and urgent issue of booting up

[Tazman]

Jacob -

If you have a 9x boot disk available - boot to it and choose the option of "Boot Without CDROM Support". At the A prompt type in "Fdisk/MBR" and hit enter. That will wipe out the Linux bootloader and make the 2K bootloader the default - I think .

I've had to do this a few times but I have always had it set like so:

ME
2K
XP
Mandrake 8

as my boot. When something went wrong with the Linux install, this resolved it and brought me back to the 2k/XP bootloader - But then you will have to reinstall Linux again. This should get your 2K partition back in view. At least this has worked on the 9X partition which is always the first boot install.

Mike

[JacobM5727]

i can use a bootdisk for when i need linux.. its my 2k im worried about..
i will give it a shot.. i thought of it.. but with 2k being on ntfs i wasnt sure..
if the worse happens i guess i could just reinstall

[Tazman]

That's a wonder of mine also with it being NTFS partion - I always have had the first partition as FAT32 and the 2K/XP partitions as NTFS. Seems to me I did have to do it once with just 2K - can't remember (hard night last inight and not enough coffee in me yet ).

It shouldn't cause you to reinstall 2K though - it's never corrupted the 2K/XP bootloader for me doing it this way. I'd even try it myself except I just had to reformat and haven't had a chance to install Mandrake. If you give me an hour, I'll let you know.

This is how I currently have my system:

XP on 120GB (2x60GB RAID 0) formatted as NTFS and an empty 40GB drive I will install Mandrake 8.0 on. Let me try it first and I'll get back with you .

Mike

[JacobM5727]

i did it, it worked like a charm, but now i have two windows probelms (non related.. i freaking hope), sheeeesh

i swear.. my loving computer just turned against me.. lol

thanks for your help taz

now that windows works.. kind of.. argh, i can get back to linux

[Tazman]

I guess Mandrake doesn't like RAID - it wouldn't install to the 40GB drive with RAID enabled.

Jacob - did you say you can still boot to Linux as well as 2000? I've always had to reinstall Mandrake.

Good luck!

Mike

[JacobM5727]

i can, but i have to use the boot disk i made during install (like when i couldnt boot to windows cause the 01010101 bs)

that works fine for my current situation.. if it gets too annoying i will deal with it sometime later

[Bullion]

ive found grub to be the better boot manager personally. Its easy to configure and manage. Id suggest u give it a go