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  • 20-03-2006 6:50pm
    #1
    The Bollox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,372 ✭✭✭


    I was given Mandrake 9.2 on a pair of discs today, and was told they could be run off the discs, however after installing I could not figure out how to boot up windows, I tried re-setting the BIOS sothat it runs from the hard disc first(factory settings) but it still just gives the option of running windows. did I delete windows?


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  • #2
    Ginger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,931 ✭✭✭Ginger


    You probably didnt delete windows.

    All that you have done is made the mandrake boot loader, the default boot loader instead of the NT one. This means that mandrake will load by default. You can instruct it to tho. There is a place in the Mandrake install where you can allow the windows partition (hda1 more than likely) to be bootable. Do you know if you are using LILO or GRUB?

    Some of these links may help

    http://www.mandrake.tips.4.free.fr/install.html

    http://arul.telenet-systems.com/info/changingBootSequence.php


  • #3
    The Bollox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,372 ✭✭✭The Bollox


    yeah, about that, I talked to the guy again, told him what I did, and when trying to set-up a partition, I deleted the windows one, but I got a windows CD off one of them and am going to get rid of Mandrake when I get home.

    thanks anyway man


  • #4
    Mach
    Closed Accounts Posts: 71 ✭✭Mach


    Why not make the machine a dula-boot system, so you can have both madrake and windows on the same macine,it quite easy.


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