Just recently sold my desktop trying out an all laptop environment...
I have an external DVD drive (an external case with an IDE drive) and I'm trying to get it recognized by Mandrake 10.1
I had been running Fedora 3 and 2000... worked fine on the desktop, but on the laptop I got the same bootloader issue that scared me from Fedora 2.
So I am back in Mandrake 10.1 arms and I think to stay... if I can resolve this dvd issue...