Hi Holly, thanks for your reply >>> Basically my question here is why exactly did you install the bootloader >>> to hdb instead of hda?
I installed to hdb as I only have 1 NTFS partition on /dev/hda and don't want to muck around with my XP install as my family will kill me if I muck it up ... >>> Do you want to keep the Windows bootloader for some reason? See above ... Anyway I figured out how to use XP boot.ini and dd if=/dev/hdb1 bs=512 count=1 of= /mnt/floppy/linux.bin to copy the lilo boot sector. I then copy this to c:\ on /dev/hda and make sure it is referenced in boot.ini. I've now got a different issue (I think) ... The XP loader activates lilo on /dev/hdb but it stalls. Basically starts to write LILO to screen but stalls at "L" freezes and goes no further. I've seen this before somewhere and thought it was disk related. So far I've tried to fix it by removing substituting lba32 / compact / linear from /etc/lilo.conf (yes I /sbin/lilo and recreate the linux.bin file for the XP bootloader). The drive is a 200MB Seagate. Anybody any ideas ...? Thanks (as usual), Richard -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.5/32 - Release Date: 27/06/2005 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
