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How to remove/add linux boot loader and configure the Radeon 9700 on Mandrake 9.0 !

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Thor_Sevan

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Hey ho !
I just installed Mandrake 9.0. Its nice but stuck at 60 hz and does not detect the radeon 9700 video card. Pretty normal I think. I then try the radeon 8500 drivers but it doesn't work.

Just to know, how do I simply remove the lilo boot loader if I wish to install it later on ?

Thanks

Thor
 
To remove lilo you can boot to a dos floppy with fdisk on it and type:

fdisk /mbr

That'll wipe off lilo from the mbr and put on the "regular" ms dos bootloader.

If you want to readd it then find some way to boot to your linux drive (using a rescue disk most likely) and just type:

lilo

That'll recycle lilo and rewrite it to it's destination (which I assume is the MBR. if not then I see no point in removing it. you might want to reinstall it to a partition to pick up settings changes though).

As to your problem, I'm not sure that the 9700 is supported yet. My best advice it to just hold tight and wait for the next release of Xfree86 which should contain the drivers. Mandrake has a fairly simple upgrade process as I remember so just upgrade Xfree86 when a new version comes out and see if it'll pick up your card then (you could get another card but I assume this 9700 is being used by a Windows install on the same machine).
 
Thanks MGMorden !
If I have win2k, how can I simply restore the boot manager ?
is there something similar to fdisk to use in the command line ?

Thor
 
Originally posted by: Thor_Sevan
Thanks MGMorden !
If I have win2k, how can I simply restore the boot manager ?
is there something similar to fdisk to use in the command line ?

Thor
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You can restore the settings by using the recovery console. This is how to do it, iirc: boot from the Windows 2000 CD, select repair an existing installation, then select recovery console. Log in to your Windows 2000 installation with your admin password, and you will get a command line. The command "FIXMBR" should do what you need.
 
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