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ok, after i plugged the ide drive back, lilo did not come up again, now after switching between ide0/1, all i get is invalid operating system. I am going to do a recovery on the linux drive and then maybe attempt to use the windows boot.

danleff, thank you for your replay, to answer some of your questions: I have no problem trying things as this is my home computer, i would rather not loose my windows stuff, but then it's going through it's slow period so i should reinstall it anyways. my setup is as follows. nf7-s(nforce 2), 2500+, 2x512 dual channel my initial setup was 2x80gb sata drives, but as i had no luck(install freezes) i switched one sata drive to an ide. ide1: 40gb maxtor(cable select) ide2: cd-rom sata1: nothing sata2: 80gb setup for sata drives does not use jumpers, there is no primary,... i believe this was one of the benefits of the new format. i got a little impatient and did a fixmbr. funny thing is that after doing that lilo still came up. i disconected the power to the ide drive and fixmbr the xp(sata) drive againg and then it booted into windows.....strange from the lilo config i was pretty sure the boot drive was the sata drive?? I am going to try the windows bootloader(from one of your links) and then maybe a network install tonight and switch the sata drive from sata 2 to 1. I am very new to linux and i know i will hit a few walls on the way.

Hi, i had some problems installing 10ce on a dual sata hd, but i finally got it to install properly using an ide drive. The problem i am having now is that the boot is on the sata hardrive (the same drive xp is on) and i can't boot into xp. Although i am not an expert by any means, i believe the lilo settings are correct, but when i choose windows i get a black screen with a flashing underscore. Does lilo need a file to be written to the sata hd? This drive als uses ntfs, and if a file needs to be on that drive, maybe the install could not write it. any suggestions would be appreciated, I just got mandrake to work and would hate to have fix the mbr just to get into windows. boot=/dev/hde1 map=/boot/map default="linux-enterprise" keytable=/boot/us.klt prompt nowarn timeout=100 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw disk=/dev/hde bios=0x80 disk=/dev/hda bios=0x81 image=/boot/vmlinuz label="linux" root=/dev/hda1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent" vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label="linux-nonfb" root=/dev/hda1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="devfs=mount acpi=ht" read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz-enterprise label="linux-enterprise" root=/dev/hda1 initrd=/boot/initrd-enterprise.img append="devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent" read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label="failsafe" root=/dev/hda1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="failsafe acpi=ht devfs=nomount" read-only other=/dev/hde1 label="windows" table=/dev/hde map-drive=0x80 to=0x81 map-drive=0x81 to=0x80 other=/dev/fd0 label="floppy" unsafe other=/dev/hde1 label="windows" table=/dev/hde map-drive=0x80 to=0x81 map-drive=0x81 to=0x80 other=/dev/fd0 label="floppy" unsafe

from what i understand (considering this is basically my first linux install) there might an issue with nforce2 (nf7-s for me) or/and the SATA controller(siI3112). The reason i am saying this (aside from reading a couple of confusing posts on this) is that i managed to install 10CE but on a regular ide hd(same machine). given my previous setup, (2 sata drives), i have read (not sure where) that fixing the install freezes might be as simple as switching the two sata drives(sata1 in slot2 sata2 in slot1). Like i said, linux installed on my ide drive, but now i can't boot to xp(sata drive) even tho lilo configuration seems ok. i get a black screen with a blinking underscore...maybe ide has priority over sata and the mbr is read of the ide drive?? I have a windows option that seems to point to the right device and i can see the sata hd from linux. I'll get back as soon as i figure something out...i really dont wanna do a fixmbr

I am going to try reburning the cd's...after I download them again. I am installing on a new hd, and used the mandrake utitity to format the drive (auto allocate). From what I have seen some people had some difficulty installing and some didn't(nforce 2). The interesting thing is that i tried an expert install and could not find the right sata driver (a name that resembles silicone image SiI3112 anyways). I excluded the possibility of a bad burn (I used CDRWin) because I tried a network install and it still froze.

Ok, the first thing I tried is to install from iso's that i downloaded. Then I tried a network install ie install dirrectly from the ftp site(that's why i said 26min, the install took over 2hr). As far as the mbr goes it is on the hd with xp, but i don't think that would be a problem. I'm gonna go through the links you posted. Thankx

Hi, I am new to Linux and tried to install mandrake 10. The problem is that the installation keeps freezing at various stage of installation. That ranges from formatting to entering root login(which is the farthest I got) Initially I was trying 10CE, and last night figured i'll try to do a network install...it froze again with 26 minutes left. My setup is: xp2500+@3200 Abit NF7-S 2x512 (ddr433 in dual channel) 2x80G Seagate SATA (NOT in Raid) Powercolor 9600Pro PS2 mouse and keyboard I have WinXP on one hd and was gonna install Mandrake on the other. I know this might be a hard one to answer, but i'm not sure what other information I can post Thanks Sorin