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Unless you're an expert, it's not recommended to change these settings as this may prevent you from booting your machine the next time you try to power it on. |
You can choose between the GRUB and the LILO bootloader. Either one will allow you to boot Mandriva Linux, it's just a question of taste.
Unless you know what you're doing, you shouldn't change the default Boot device shown, since that's where the bootloader installs itself. If more than one OS is installed on your machine, it's a good idea to leave at least 5 seconds so that you can easily select a different menu item than the default image.
The dialog finally shows a few options which can be useful depending on your specific hardware.
Enable this option to allow better power management support if your hardware is ACPI compatible. ACPI is often needed for new laptops which no longer support APM.
The IO-APIC is only really useful for multi-processor systems. It may cause problems on single processor systems and should be deactivated in that case by checking this box.
The Local APIC can be used by Linux to program interruptions to wake up threads. On multi-processor machines it can be used to send interrupts to another processor.
These relatively new APIC features are known to cause problems on some computers because of badly designed chip sets or poor support in Linux kernel drivers. These problems can cause system freezes or incorrect device detection. So you may need to deactivate them by checking the corresponding box.
Click on to be able wipe the
contents of the /tmp
directory (which might hold
some files you download from the Internet, for instance) and to
tell Linux how much RAM your machine uses should this
prove to be an issue at boot time.