Mandrakelinux Bootloader install issue...

timothyb89

timothyb89

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Ok... So I'm currently installing Mandrake Linux 10.01, and all has gone well... enough...
Until now. It seems to be stuck on the Bootloader installer. Does this usually take this long for a bootloader to instal? I thought it was done in a matter of seconds from my other experences. (sp)
Anyone know wy this is happening? It's a Gateway, and Mandrake is being installed on a 160GB SimpleTech USB drive with 4 partitions.

If no one has any ideas, I think it may have finished installing the bootloader. If the bootloader wasn't installed, how would I boot into Mandrake without it?
 
timothyb89 said:
Ok... So I'm currently installing Mandrake Linux 10.01, and all has gone well... enough...
Until now. It seems to be stuck on the Bootloader installer. Does this usually take this long for a bootloader to instal? I thought it was done in a matter of seconds from my other experences. (sp)
Anyone know wy this is happening? It's a Gateway, and Mandrake is being installed on a 160GB SimpleTech USB drive with 4 partitions.

If no one has any ideas, I think it may have finished installing the bootloader. If the bootloader wasn't installed, how would I boot into Mandrake without it?
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only thing I can think of is the automation of the Mandrake script.. are all 4 partitions being used for the linux system, IE is one /var/ one /home etc, or is one fat32, one NTFS for windows, and another for linux?

what I am getting at is, you can install the bootloader on yourself, if its the last thing being called on the mandrake installer.
 
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