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Mandrake was a fatal mistake

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TheQuirk:
yeah, that's for pointing that out. I never knew that, actually.

Master of Reality:
I love Red Hat, dont like Mandrake (even though it is basically red hat). I like Slackware too, but havent used it with a GUI yet.

Calum:

quote:Originally posted by dbl221:
use the fdisk from Dos/windows and at the command prompt type:  fdisk /mbr
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that's what i was going to say, and i'd be muy interested to know if it solved the problem...
 
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This overwrites the Master Boot Record.  The MBR is composed of 0-446 Bytes boot-strap code + 64 Bytes(4*16) for the 4 entry partition table plus 2 Bytes for the signature AA55.
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Hey! if the MBR is written in machine code, i could write it myself couldn't i? without having to use lilo? (i know this would be pretty pointless, but i like to be able to do things more than one way) does anybody know how i would go about this?

Ice-9:
Okay, did an fdisk /mbr with dos fdisk, it didn't solve the problem.
Every time I get the same message "Loading Windows. File missing. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart".

Next to that I fdisk-ed everything, it was 2.30 AM so I wnet to sleep after that but as soon as I come home from work today I'll give it another go.
I'll keep you posted.

Calum:
i am having difficulty understanding the current state of your hard drive. Which systems are installed, and which bootloaders and boot records have what in them?

If you need a dual boot win2k and SuSE setup, do the fdisk /mbr to make sure, reinstall windows (or just test to see that your computer now boots to windows fine after the fdisk) then install SuSE last, placing your newly written boot record over the top of your windows boot record that you just made with fdisk. There are other multiboot solutions, i'm not sure how GRUB does all it's extra tricks...

so what setup do you have now, and what do you want to change?

Perhaps this thread will help. In particular:
 
quote:originally posted by DownSouthMoe:

As far as tri-booting goes, I do it with Windows using the boot.ini file. Screw LILO and GRUB, I don't use em'! Just partition your drives as you like them during the installs, and when it comes time to install a boot manager, simply don't do it or just install it to the drive that you are install UNIX/Linux on. Then, boot to UNIX/Linux using a boot disk and then mount a blank floppy and enter the command "dd /dev/hda5 bs=512 count=1 /mnt/floppy/bootsect.bsd" where hda5 is your drive that UNIX/Linux is installed on, and bootsect.bsd is whatever file name you want to call your booting file. Then, unmount your floppy and reboot into Windows, copy your file from the floppy to one of your directories (or folders) then edit boot.ini and add an entry like... C:\BOOTSECT.BSD "FreeBSD UNIX 4.5"
That will let you choose which OS you want to load whenever you're booting. It also gets around disk geometry problems associated with some of the Linux boot managers.
Currently I'm running Windows XP Professional, Mandrake Linux 8.2, and FreeBSD 4.5, and they all work just fine using this method.
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[ June 17, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]

[ June 17, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]

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