musikemic 0 Posted August 22, 2004 Hey, i just installed mandrake 10 on a new partition, and it seems like everything has installed properly, yet when i get to boot magic and pick mandrake it goes to "preparing machine to load mandrake linux" and just sits there...i tried re-installing, i dont know what to do, im a complete newbie to linux so plz help me!!! Amd 1.33 ghz 384 mb ram Ati Radeon 128mb 9200 Gigabyte Z7XE MoBo HD1 40gb Maxtor (C: Windows XP) HD2 160gb (Split into 4 Partitions, 1st 20 gb Mandrake Partion, 1.5 gb swap file, 50 mb fat32 boot magic partition, and aprox 130 gb storage) Share this post Link to post
martouf 0 Posted August 24, 2004 using Partition Magic to set up your partitions is a Good Thing. unfortunately, Boot Magic is often a Bad Thing. would you be distressed to uninstall Boot Magic, make sure WinXP is still OK and happy, then install MDK again and permit the native bootloader (Grub, isn't it?) to write to the MBR? Share this post Link to post
