Mandrake install probs and Triple Booting.

[TheVrolok]

Ok, I'm running 98se/2k and now mandrake on my sys. I wanted to use the 2k boot loader so I was intending to use the how to that I found on this board. That's all good. Though first off, Linux installed over my mbr during setup and overwrote the 2k boot loader with GRUB, which I find far more irritating than the 2k loader. How can I restore the 2k boot loader? Second, some how the install of mandrake got messed up. It goes through boot up and then goes to the console with the following message:

kdm: error in loading shared libraries: libpng.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.

This message must have scrolled 7 or 8 times and then I get:

INIT: Id "x" respawning too fast, disabled for 5 minutes.

Anyone know how I can fix that as well as the boot loader? Reformat/install?

 

[SUOrangeman]

Boot into Linux and uninstall LILO with 'lilo -u'. At this point, you Win2K loader should be restored.

Edit /etc/lilo.conf and change the first line (boot=/dev/hd...) so that it is now pointing to your /boot partition (if you have no separate /boot, use /). Reinstall lilo (just run 'lilo').

Go to www.winimage.com and get bootpart. From Windows/DOS, run bootpart to add Linux to your Win2K loader menu.

Other errors are likely due to an XFree86 misconfig.

-SUO

 

[ddiccico]

if you want to fix the mbr without booting into linux, you can boot the win2k installation cd, choose repair->console mode, and type fixmbr at the command prompt

 

[TheVrolok]

How can I fix that error in linux? XFree86 config? How could I redo it? I'm an extreme linux newbie. Maybe I'll just boogie on over to the console and look around a bit then end up reformatting/reinstalling.

 

[SUOrangeman]

What video card? Sounds like something that may not be supported out-of-the-box.

-SUO

 

[TheVrolok]

GeForce II GTS/Pro. Mandrake detects it as a GeForce DDR generic during install. It's an OEM card.

 

[SUOrangeman]

Go to www.evil3d.net and read heir howto fo nVidia+Mandrake. There are some extra files you need to install.

-SUO

 

[TheVrolok]

Thanks SUOrangeman, that's kinda what I was thinking but I'm still new to Linux so I wasn't quite sure. Thanks for the help, you easily deserve the 10 I just rated you(even as arbitrary as ratings are ).

 

[SUOrangeman]

I've just been around the block a few times.

-SUO