On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 19:45, Dennis Kibbe wrote: > On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 18:58:16 -0700 > "Tom Achtenberg" wrote: > > > That's what I thought but it gives me an error saying it cannot allocate the > > partitions correctly (but also says it is OK to ignore the error) then later > > in the install it gives me other partition errors. When I restart even > > after manually deleting the Linux partitions the Mandrake loader comes on > > and asks which OS to load. > > If this were LILO I'd say you need to edit lilo.conf to make sure it's trying to boot the right partitions. I'd guess GRUB might work the same. > This is probably more relevant to Dennis's post that Tom's. Here's a couple links to a good article on grub. http://www.linux-mag.com/2003-11/guru_01.html http://www.linux-mag.com/2003-12/guru_01.html It covers installing grub on a floppy for testing purposes so maybe it can help Tom. Bart --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss