I have been playing around with a few other distributions besides Mandriva over the last couple of weeks. Except for the bootloader changing when another distribution was installed, Mandriva was running fine. Then I decided to play with Fedora. When it's boot loader was installed, it was not nice enough to leave entries for mandriva, however. No big deal, I could just edit the settings for Grub.
Before I did that, however, I decided to try the proprietary ATI driver for my video cards in Fedora, since only one of my monitors was working. Well, of course, when I rebooted, Fedora would no longer boot.
No problem, I thought. I would run the live version of Mandriva, and use it to reinstall the Madriva Grub bootloader so that I could run Mandriva again. Well here is where I became a moron.
I successfully installed the Mandriva bootloader, but I put it on the disk that Mandriva was installed on. The problem, however, was that the bootloader needed to be installed on another disk, the one set up in the BIOS as the boot disk. Duh!!!
Unfortunately, I did not realize this stupid mistake until after I had reformatted the Mandriva partition and reinstalled it. (I don't know enough about Linux yet to do much else.) So, I had to go through and reconfigure everything to my liking again and reinstall the programs I use. All because I selected the wrong drive when installing the bootloader.
Well, I guess I won't make that mistake again, lol.
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