Hi Got a new laptop a couple months,(Packard Bell) and
last night i decide i would try an dual boot with
mandrake 10( the cover DVD from this months Linux
Format).
The hard drive had a 33GB Windows partition, with
another 4 GB also so windows.This was the space I use
to for Linux, and the Linux portion was
about 100MB for /boot
about 512 for /swap
about 1.7GB /home
about 2GB /root
the installation went ok ,so i though until i booted
in to Linux the graphics car had the wrong settings(
this happen twice ), I reinstalled Linux, and left
everthing the way it was.Formated /root like i was
asked too do.Then it came up asking were the boot
loader was to go I click MRB,and everything seamed to
install fine.I the went to boot Windows and it came up
with the message along the lines
file hal.dll can not be found or corrupted,please
reinstall it.
I deleted the Linux partitions to see if it would
boot in windows no luck so i deiced to reinstall
windows ,after about a hour I finally had the
computer back to the way was when i got it(I hope
haven't time test it yet).So can any tell me where i
went wrong.
I installed Linux successfully before but that was a
clean install.
Alan
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