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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Mandrake 8.1 + W98SE Problem Post 13970 by KyPeN on Friday 25th of January 2002 02:08:02 PM
Old 01-25-2002
Question Mandrake 8.1 + W98SE Problem
Sup
Ok, here is the problem.
I bought Linux Manrake v.8.1 Power Pack Edition
I booted it up, and got to the partitioning part of the installation. As Manrake users would know, there are several options that you can install with. There is Custom Patitioning, Format and load w/ Linux on it, add to existing Linux Partition, re-size from windows partition, and several others that are irelevent. Since my parents like windows (WIMPS), I had no choice but to do the Re-size from existing partition. Promlem #1: Option isn't there! There is no option for me to do this, but it IS in the manuel. So I talk to tech support, and they say to get some software and use that to create a partition...So I do. So I get Partition Magic, and create a Linux partition. So I go back the to the installer, and it recognizes it. I get the OS installed without a hitch. Then I gotta restart. Problem #2: Windows doesnt show up on the boot screen. There are only 3 options. 1. Boot Linux. 2. Boot Linux into Safe Mode. 3. Rescue (Or something similar, bad memory). So I figure, I'll get into Linux and find out how to get into Windows later. So I click Boot Linux. Takes quite a while to load, but no longer than Windows, so I'm starting to feel pretty good about this. Problem #3 I get to the text based OS! There is nothing in the book about this, and it keeps constantly refreshing. I can log in, but I can't get into the GUI. So I gave up. I uninstalled it. Problem #4 STILL HAD THE BOOT SCREEN. So from there what I did is popped in my W98SE CD, and re-installed Windows without formatting. My computer is running fine now (at least all that can be expected from Windows), but I want to know what went wrong. All help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance guys!

Justin

Gateway Essencial 550
Pentium III 550 mHz
320 Meg SDRAM
14.3 Gig HD
nVidia TNT2 32 Meg Video Card
 

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bootctl

BOOTCTL(1)							      bootctl								BOOTCTL(1)

NAME

       bootctl - Control the firmware and boot manager settings

SYNOPSIS

       bootctl [OPTIONS...] status

       bootctl [OPTIONS...] list

       bootctl [OPTIONS...] update

       bootctl [OPTIONS...] install

       bootctl [OPTIONS...] remove

DESCRIPTION

       bootctl checks, updates, installs or removes the boot loader from the current system.

       bootctl status checks and prints the currently installed versions of the boot loader binaries and all current EFI boot variables.

       bootctl list displays all configured boot loader entries.

       bootctl update updates all installed versions of systemd-boot, if the current version is newer than the version installed in the EFI system
       partition. This also includes the EFI default/fallback loader at /EFI/BOOT/BOOT*.EFI. A systemd-boot entry in the EFI boot variables is
       created if there is no current entry. The created entry will be added to the end of the boot order list.

       bootctl install installs systemd-boot into the EFI system partition. A copy of systemd-boot will be stored as the EFI default/fallback
       loader at /EFI/BOOT/BOOT*.EFI. A systemd-boot entry in the EFI boot variables is created and added to the top of the boot order list.

       bootctl remove removes all installed versions of systemd-boot from the EFI system partition, and removes systemd-boot from the EFI boot
       variables.

       If no command is passed, status is implied.

OPTIONS

       The following options are understood:

       -h, --help
	   Print a short help text and exit.

       --version
	   Print a short version string and exit.

       --path=
	   Path to the EFI System Partition (ESP). If not specified, /efi, /boot, and /boot/efi are checked in turn. It is recommended to mount
	   the ESP to /boot, if possible.

       -p, --print-path
	   This option modifies the behaviour of status. Just print the path to the EFI System Partition (ESP) to standard output and exit.

       --no-variables
	   Do not touch the EFI boot variables.

EXIT STATUS

       On success, 0 is returned, a non-zero failure code otherwise.

SEE ALSO

       Boot loader specification[1] systemd boot loader interface[2]

NOTES

	1. Boot loader specification
	   https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/BootLoaderSpec

	2. systemd boot loader interface
	   https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/BootLoaderInterface

systemd 237																BOOTCTL(1)
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