Ive recently installed linux on my second 40gb hard drive and my pc doesn't boot properely it says 'invalid partition table' so i have to boot my comp then press f11 on the second screen and select the first harddrive IDE-0 its 80gb btw and it has windows on. then it goes fine from there i just select wich to use nt or linux. has anyone had this trouble before as i would like some help. ive followed the instructions and it just gets a little annoying. im useing mandrake linux btw

Wrong fourm? You might try asking in the Everything Linux forum.

I never liked using the Linux os loader when dual booting, I always preferred the Windows 2000 (Not sure if it's the same in XP) way of doing it. Just seemed a lot easier to me

I've always had good luck with lilo. It takes some manual configuration of the lilo.conf, but it's easy to do. Just remember to run lilo at your shell after you make changes.

I've never seen this sort of problem before.

I use grub, works fine for me.. however...
Once upon a time, I re-partioned my hardrive using an old version of Partition Magic (Version 6 I think).... it somehow screwed up partition table causing similar problems like this.
Upon a re-install of Windows fixed the problem, kindof (I was able to boot into an OS), but the partition table was still screwed, so a complete format, wpe of enitre hardrive was required and the problem went away (Until I used partition magic again).

Sorry to spurt out loads of meaningless dribble which probably won't help you at all, but err, I switched to Paragon HD utils and the problem went away.
Not a plug BTW! :)

i dont know if if the partition is dodgy still but i changed the bios to start up from the other drive and know it works fine although ut2004 doesn't work does anyone know where i can get some drivers for my sound card realtek ac97 and any linux drivers for my xfxgeforcefx5200.

Just use GRUB. Lilo is crap by design.

You can get drivers for your video card from nVidia. Quite solid and well featured.

As for sound drivers, use alsa. What distribution are you using? Most of this comes preconfigured for you.

Clutch