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Thank the Deities! Mandrake booted into the GUI by NOLAWitch2005-01-16 16:18:36
  Anybody got any ideas about pruning the by NOLAWitch2005-01-16 16:36:52
    Is his machine going to dual boot windows and by Tars_Tarkas 2005-01-16 16:45:26
linux?

If so you'll need one of those windows entries. Finding out which is the correct one could be done by just trying to boot each one and see which one works. Then delete the rest. Might be interesting to see what happens when you try to boot one of them anyhow...

If not, just delete them all.

As long as you can boot into linux, you can always add them back in later if they're needed for something.

There's probably some bootable windows partition on the machine which gets added to the bootloader (lilo or grub, btw?) each time you do the upgrade step, without first checking whether existing windows entries are the same...
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Cardinal Tars Tarkas, KSC.
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      Argh... *just arrived from triple-checking* (n/t) by Hessofanes2005-01-16 16:49:02
        I optimized that down to double-checking :) (n/t) by Tars_Tarkas2005-01-16 16:51:31
      Nope. He's through with Windblows. by NOLAWitch2005-01-16 16:51:26
        Presuming it's LILO by Hoth2005-01-16 16:57:50
          If it's grub by Tars_Tarkas2005-01-16 17:00:53

 

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