Simple question but big irritant for me.

[harpoon]

I just installed Mandrake soft 9.2, but eventually it did not start,so I deleted the logical drive & reformatted it.Everything's fine like before but the startup screen shows 4 boot options viz linux,windows,floopy,failsafe.
How do I get rid of this startup screen & windows will boot normally again?

 

[Vishal Gupta]

Method 1.) Boot using XP Setup CD and in Recovery Console give following command:

fixmbr

Method 2.) Boot using 98 CD and give following command:

fdisk /mbr

 

[romeo_8693]

if im not wrong then ur using only windows now..if yes just edit ur boot.ini file once u boot in windows...

 

[Pathik]

yup jus open boot.ini and check all boot paths..

 

[Vishal Gupta]

Guys!
The boot loader, he is talking about is the Mandrake one not the Windows loader!
Did u read the loader entries? these r: linux,windows,floopy,failsafe, which r present in Linux loaders not in windows loader.

 

[romeo_8693]

ooops....u got a point vishal!!!

 

[JGuru]

LILO boot loader of Mandriva Linux is installed in MBR. So you get the LILO Boot
options - Linux, Windows, failsafe, floppy.
@Vishal Gupta has already provided you the solution. That will fix your problem.