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ummm, Ok. I hate to even be asking this. But once again I dabbled where I should not be dabbling.

I had "Open Suese" installed, and thought I would try "Mint", This I did,and when I booted, I had to choose which OS to use, I liked Mint and most offen chose that. When I heard Mageia 3 was out, and as I had a lot of space on my hard drive, I though I would try it as well. After downloading and buring I disk, I started the install proceedure. I accepted all the default options on the choices offered me, including where to install it. I did this without even looking assuming it would install in the empty portion of my harddrive. and that I would have three OS's to choose from on boot...... That is not the case, When I boot, it only give me Mageia as an option.

So this is my question; Have I lost those other operating systems, (and all the associated files), or are they still there? If they are still there is there a way to access them through the Grub menu?

Nic

If you had a separate /home partition your personal files should still be there.
But yes the default may have used your existing Linux partitions wiping Mint.

You can look at the drive with diskdrake to see if the empty space is still there.

By default Mageia will not offer to format an existing partition which shall be used as /home.

If your question is how to boot back to Mint, you need to add it to the Mageia bootloader.
The default setting is to install MAgeia bootloader to the MBR of the harddrive where you install it, this is the default for all linux distributions.
For bootloader configuration, you may want to look at http://doc.mageia.org/mcc/3/en/content/ ... -boot.html
and for special things to consider for a grub2 based distro like Mint: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_2_Err ... stallation