dual boot hell!

[joe]

Mike, the advice and tips you've received from Craig are going 
to be far more useful and trustworthy than anything I might 
offer, but for whatever it may be worth, I'll pass along an 
idea that helped me get dual boot set up on a laptop that had 
winXP preinstalled: 

If you can get a copy of the Knoppix live CD, it has a program 
called 'qtparted' that allowed me to set up partitions when 
Mandriva 2006 was unable to do it for me. 



---------- Original Message -----------
From: "mike enriquez" <thegeek at e-pebblecreek.com>
To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 20:46:27 -0700
Subject: dual boot hell!

> 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
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