The last time I had mandrake on this computer I wanted to I wanted to create a floppy with LILO on it. There was a tool for doing that somewhere in mandrake I think, but it always gave me an error when I tried to run it. Are the any boot managers you can download for a floppy. I would assume you would have to write in some partition information (better yet have it do it automatically).
I ask this because I had a huge problem before with a conflict between W2KPro and mandrake. In the battle between the OS's my innocent data partition was removed from the table. I forget the exact events. However, I remember numbers real well, so I knew the exact beginning and end of the partition. Much to my surprise, adding the info back into the partition table did not work, since WIN2K kept restoring it to one without the data partition. Eventually I just wiped the whole thing, since I had most of my data backed up, and I can survive with a little lost information.
This leads to wanting a boot manager that cannot be screwed up by an OS that wishes to do things its way.
Like I said, I could never get the rescue disk thing or whatever it was in mandrake to work (always gave an error; don't remember which - it was a long time ago).
Anyway, I am going to install mandrake 10, so I will see if it works now; however, I would still like to hear anything on the subject.
I ask this because I had a huge problem before with a conflict between W2KPro and mandrake. In the battle between the OS's my innocent data partition was removed from the table. I forget the exact events. However, I remember numbers real well, so I knew the exact beginning and end of the partition. Much to my surprise, adding the info back into the partition table did not work, since WIN2K kept restoring it to one without the data partition. Eventually I just wiped the whole thing, since I had most of my data backed up, and I can survive with a little lost information.
This leads to wanting a boot manager that cannot be screwed up by an OS that wishes to do things its way.
Like I said, I could never get the rescue disk thing or whatever it was in mandrake to work (always gave an error; don't remember which - it was a long time ago).
Anyway, I am going to install mandrake 10, so I will see if it works now; however, I would still like to hear anything on the subject.
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