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From: SOTL <sotl155360@earthlink.net>
To: haltec@kvinet.com, linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: lilo boot problems with SATA and mandrake 10.1
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 09:27:56 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200412190927.56158.sotl155360@earthlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041218185604.GB611@lnx2.w8mch.ampr.org>

On Saturday 18 December 2004 01:56 pm, Hal MacArgle wrote:
> On 12-16, Simon Valiquette wrote:
> > Vladimir E. Rodriguez a ?crit :
> > >Also I have windows XP on this system to dual boot.
> > >After I have installed Fedora Core 3, It works normally, but with
> > >mandrake 10.1 official I have problems to boot.

That is normal with Mandrake 10.x. Infact the issue of half ass software is 
normal from Mandrake. For some reason or another Mandrake ALWAYS leaves our a 
few critical files. I have experienced this in 8.x, 9.x and 10.x. Different 
files different times but always something left out or half ass put together.

If you are looking for a corporate type distribution meaning one with the 
programs that are applicable to small business go to SuSE but you must 
realize that if you do not configure things their way or want to do something 
oddball you may have negative issues but if what you want is the best source 
of included proprietary programs then this should be your choice.

If you can roil your own then there is Gentoo.

If you want somebody else to roil it but open source only then there id Debian 
and Fedora.

Frank

> > >
> > >Please anybody have experience with this thing?
>
> 	FWIW, I can't really help; only comment.. I tried setting up
> a dual boot machine with WinXP for a neighbour, that was already
> setup with Win98, 8gB partition and Linux...  Never got Win98
> replaced with XP but XP managed to completly mess up the Linux
> partition changing the device numbers.. It took several hours with
> cfdisk to straighten out the partition table and then re install
> Win98 for them... NEVER again... Hope you have better luck..

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-12-19 14:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-16  9:40 lilo boot problems with SATA and mandrake 10.1 Vladimir E. Rodriguez
2004-12-16 22:08 ` Simon Valiquette
2004-12-18 18:56   ` Hal MacArgle
2004-12-19 14:27     ` SOTL [this message]
2004-12-17  6:35 ` Richard Adams
2004-12-17 16:31 ` Arthur Nascimento

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