Eddie, the problem is with Mandriva. I vividly remember reading that Mandriva 2006 will overwrite a configuration file on next boot, if you do so
manually.
So, it should have some kind of tool in the control centre or whatever it's called in Mandriva like YaST for Suse.
Here's something that can help
http://doc.mandrivalinux.com/Mandrak...onf-intro.html .