[newbie] help!!!

[Bradley Crockett]

I've heard that XP wants control of the boot sector, so you need to
install it first and then install Linux. It sounds like that's what
you've done, so this may not be much help.

Brad

On Sun, 08 Jun 2003 03:13:22 +0800, Lorne Steinke wrote:
>Hi I'm new to this list , I haven't seen any action ,coming from
>here, so...
>so i'm going to try anyways, good time to check it out, 'cause I'm
>up the creek
>if you know what I mean. a while ago I tried to dual boot my
>computer with xp and
>mandrake 9.0 , thats where it started , got linux to boot up ,
>couldn't access xp
>so since then its been a 'crash' course in linux (too much truth in
>that pun) I
>mostly had 9.0 up and running so I had access to the net, etc but
>somewhere in there
>I was surfing and it froze up and well... thats where the problems
>started ,since
>then I was haveing trouble with all kinds of stuff to the point that
>I decided to reboot
>the whole system. I thought doing so with an upgrade mandrake 9.1
>would be best anyways , after wiping the disk clean and reformating
>,as problems seemed to continue, there
>still seems to be problems trying to reboot , lost directories, lost
>files , etc.
>I thought if you reformated the disk and started from scratch you
>would have a clean
>slate shouldn't the boot disc have all the files and directories it
>needs ? anyways
>this may not be enough info to go on, but if anyone is out there
>with any sympathy,
>please reply, my system doesn't even want to boot up, on a borrowed
>computer...thanks Lorne