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Old 11-08-2002
Booting

Hi all,
I've managed to get Mandrake 9 installed by disconnecting my 2 windows' drives. When I reconnect them Mandrake wants to take over. I figure it's time for the BootManager, or should I use a Linux specific one like Lilo? Or have I already stuffed up by not running Lilo at time of installation?
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Old 11-10-2002
You can use a 3rd party program like boot magic. I've used boot maic it's good at times. Also you can use Lilo. It's whatever you would like to do. I always use lilo where ever I can.
merlin
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Old 11-10-2002
Mandrake used to come with a built in automatically installed boot manager. I dont know about nine, I havent used it, but whern i ran 8.2 it had one...
 
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