Mandrakelinux 10.0 Official for AMD64 released

Posted May 6, 2004 22:43 UTC (Thu) by gavino (guest, #16214)
In reply to: Mandrakelinux 10.0 Official for AMD64 released by khim
Parent article: Mandrakelinux 10.0 Official for AMD64 released

Microsoft don't claim to support dual-booting of non-Windows operating systems, so I usually install Linux after Windows. If I have to install Windows after Linux and GRUB is in the MBR then that's not a problem - I anticipate this and have a rescue floppy or CD handy, and in no time at all I've got GRUB back in the MBR and everything is happily dual-booting. The fact is Windows hadn't screwed up the *partition information* of the MBR, it had merely changed the bootstrap part where GRUB resided and left the unknown partition types alone (unknown to Windows).

There are two differences here. One is that Mandrake Community Edition 10.0 screwed over the *partition information* section of the MBR, irrevocably damaging it as far as dual-booting is concerned. Some people had success in changing the BIOS from CHS to LBA but I and many others didn't. The only fix was to wipe the MBR clean and start afresh. Goodbye to my data in the Windows partition.

The other difference is that Mandrake claim to support dual-booting. No other Linux distro I've ever installed has corrupted my MBR.

This was a bug, not a feature, and a very nasty one. So nasty in fact that I doubt I'll ever use Mandrake again. A lot of people have been burnt by this. My back is now turned on Mandrake and their poor QA and I can't wait for FC2 :)

Mandrakelinux 10.0 Official for AMD64 released

Posted May 8, 2004 4:05 UTC (Sat) by robotralph (guest, #2570) [Link]

I noticed you specified that you used the comunity version of man 10. it was also said before you down loaded it it was not a finished product, more akin to a mid beta for testing. where final testing was done . did you submit a bugzilla report on the problem or just slink away.also you can receive broken code on a down load only takes one bit out of place, some mirrows are not up to the latest versions either so you may have received a slightly older version. they do change daily. at least till they get to producton versions, and they change some as well.