Re: Mandrake is a Piece Of Shit!

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From: Christopher Ryan
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 00:00

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> Try booting into Mandrake using a boot floppy go to DrakConf and alter Boot
> preference to make the win98 95 etc partition the default boot system, then
> when you reboot you will not have the Stage 1 Geom Error message but instead
> you should see the Lilo prompt then you can select either Linux Windows
> Rescue etc at your leisure! At least thats how I did it.and it worked for me.


Thanks a lot for your reply.  
I'll post in a few mins with the result.
really appreciate it :-)
Chris.

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