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WinME and Mandrake Linux

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by danielg

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I recently tried to install Mandrake onto my system. I used partition commander to partition the drive. The installation went just fine, but when it came time to boot, only Mandrake would boot, WinMe wouldn't boot. I tried to restore the MBR and that just seemed to make things worse. Only solution was to reinstall WinME and try again. Still did not work. Any ideas...

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by zbrain75

You should have been able to set your booting through LILO. You should have installed it onto your MBR when installing Linux. If this did not occur, you would need to determine which partition WinMe is installed in and set your /etc/lilo.conf fileup to boot to that partition with additional entries like:

other = /dev/hda1
table = /dev/hda
label = WinMe

In this example I assume WinME is on your first partition on your primary hard drive and Linux is on your second partition.

For more information see:
http://ctdp.tripod.com/os/linux/usersguide/index.html

Section 3 and 17 may be of some help.

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