If this has been asked before im sorry 1)I installed Mandrake on a second hard drive,seperate from the windows xp hard drive, and now all i can get to boot is Mandrake, it goes directly into mandrake(i have the option to boot linux, safe"something", floppy, and Linux"something") I want to be able to choose which one boots 2)When i boot linux up i get to what looks like a network login screen, i dont want a login screen and in the installation i dont think i set it like that. I dont know the login or password what should please help me :) P.S. I am running Knoppix to type this.

You can fix your first problem from booting into Knoppix and mounting the partition ou installed the boot loader on. After you mount the partition you can edit the boot loader settings from knoppix with a text editor. Im not exactly sure what your second hd will be recognized as i believe it might be hdb i think. if you boot into knoppix type this in a command prompt: mkdir /mnt/boot mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/boot (if you installed your boot loader on the first partition on the drive) then cd /mnt/boot im not sure if you used grub but if you did you should see a folder called grub in the folder. cd grub open grub.conf with a text editor (i use nano) nano grub.conf there should be a line that says something like "timeout" with number after that. change it to 30 so it gives you 30 seconds to choose what to boot. if you want to add a option to boot to windows add a new line: title Windows XP chainloader=(hd0,0)+5 then save it. if your using nano hit control and o. then: cp grub.conf menu.lst hopefuly this helps you let me know if you get anywhere this should work but im not sure if your second hd is hdb or something else. cd / umount /dev/hdb1 reboot hopefuly you get the grub menu and can choose windows. Hi.

1) The easiest way would be to run the mandrake control centre (mcc) and add a boot entry for windoze. 2) Sounds like you are booting into text mode. If you login can you successfully run "startx"? If so just edit /etc/inittab and change the line: id:3:initdefault: to id:5:initdefault: You will have been asked for a root password during installation. Log on as username "root" and the password you gave. If you can't remember what it is, search these forums to discover how to change it with either your knoppix CD or by booting into single user mode.