On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 20:46 -0700, mike enriquez wrote: > I live in dual boot hell? Sure I am a newbie but this has got to get > better with time so I think! > I have xp pro running then I installed Mandriva 2006 in a clean > partition. > Everything went well but when I rebooted I got nothing but zeros and > one across my monitor screen. > I don't know what I did wrong? To get my computer running I had to use > the xp recovery console and run "FXMBR" but I cannot > get to my Mandriva 2006 partition. > Can anyone on the list give some insights on what to do when you > install a dual boot computer. > Thanks > Mike Enriquez newbie ---- oh - and by the way... I've absolutely no experience with Mandriva but assuming something similar to Red Hat / Fedora... - Boot the Installer Disk 1 (or the emergency boot disk if that is separate) - Do whatever necessary to indicate booting to a 'rescue mode' - chroot your / directory...(on Red Hat/Fedora, this would be chroot /mnt/sysimage) - edit /boot/grub/grub.conf if necessary (there should be an entry for booting to Linux and an entry for booting to Windows) - execute grub-install /dev/hda - reboot Craig --------------------------------------------------- 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