You can choose between two bootloaders: GRUB and LILO. For the latter you can either choose a text or a graphical menu. Either one will allow you to boot Mandrakelinux, it's just a question of taste.
Unless you know what you are doing, you should not change the default Boot device shown, since that is where the bootloader installs itself. The next field allows you to set the time (in seconds) before the bootloader starts the default OS. If you have more than one OS installed onto your machine, it's a good idea to leave at least 5 seconds so that you can easily select a different menu item, if needed.
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Unless you really know what you are doing, it is not recommended that you change these settings as this may prevent you from booting your machine the next time you try to power it on. |
The dialog finally shows a few options that 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 then be deactivated 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 features are known to cause problems on some computers because of badly designed chipsets 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.