Re: [gentoo-user] Lilo error when booting to windows

2008-05-02 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Danis Petkakis wrote:
 well i did boot with windows cd did a fixmbr, then reinstalled lilo in mbr
 and now
 it seems to work...when i choose windows the entry of the ntldr shows up
 and then
 i choose to boot to windows without any problems...could i somehow put an
 entry
 in ntldr so that instead of booting to windows to fall back to lilo menu
 again so that
 i don't have to reboot??

Google for boot Linux with ntldr or chainload linux with ntldr.  But it is 
not maintenance free.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Lilo error when booting to windows

2008-04-30 Thread robert anstuther
 Hi, it sounds like windows may have become corrupted, you may be able to
rescue it with rconsole tools.

Boba.



 hello there...i have a little trouble booting to windows from
 lilo...windows
 is on sdb1 and gentoo on sdc2...when i try to boot to windows i get an
 error
 ntldr is missing...my lilo.conf is as follows

 boot=/dev/sdb
 prompt
 timeout=50
 default=Gentoo


 # Gentoo-2.6.24-r4
 image=/boot/kernel-2.6.24-gentoo-r4
 label=Gentoo
 read-only
 root=/dev/sdc2

 # Gentoo-2.6.23-r6
 image=/boot/kernel-2.6.23-gentoo-r6
 label=Gentoo2
 read-only
 root=/dev/sdc2

 # Windows
 other=/dev/sdb1
 label=Windows
 #table=/dev/sdb1


 could anyone help me to overcome this problem?? thanks in advance...



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Re: [gentoo-user] Lilo error when booting to windows

2008-04-30 Thread Danis Petkakis
well i did boot with windows cd did a fixmbr, then reinstalled lilo in mbr
and now
it seems to work...when i choose windows the entry of the ntldr shows up and
then
i choose to boot to windows without any problems...could i somehow put an
entry
in ntldr so that instead of booting to windows to fall back to lilo menu
again so that
i don't have to reboot??

2008/4/30 robert anstuther [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

  Hi, it sounds like windows may have become corrupted, you may be able to
 rescue it with rconsole tools.

 Boba.



  hello there...i have a little trouble booting to windows from
  lilo...windows
  is on sdb1 and gentoo on sdc2...when i try to boot to windows i get an
  error
  ntldr is missing...my lilo.conf is as follows
 
  boot=/dev/sdb
  prompt
  timeout=50
  default=Gentoo
 
 
  # Gentoo-2.6.24-r4
  image=/boot/kernel-2.6.24-gentoo-r4
  label=Gentoo
  read-only
  root=/dev/sdc2
 
  # Gentoo-2.6.23-r6
  image=/boot/kernel-2.6.23-gentoo-r6
  label=Gentoo2
  read-only
  root=/dev/sdc2
 
  # Windows
  other=/dev/sdb1
  label=Windows
  #table=/dev/sdb1
 
 
  could anyone help me to overcome this problem?? thanks in advance...
 


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[gentoo-user] Lilo error when booting to windows

2008-04-29 Thread Danis Petkakis
hello there...i have a little trouble booting to windows from lilo...windows
is on sdb1 and gentoo on sdc2...when i try to boot to windows i get an error
ntldr is missing...my lilo.conf is as follows

boot=/dev/sdb
 prompt
 timeout=50
 default=Gentoo


 # Gentoo-2.6.24-r4
 image=/boot/kernel-2.6.24-gentoo-r4
 label=Gentoo
 read-only
 root=/dev/sdc2

 # Gentoo-2.6.23-r6
 image=/boot/kernel-2.6.23-gentoo-r6
 label=Gentoo2
 read-only
 root=/dev/sdc2

 # Windows
 other=/dev/sdb1
 label=Windows
 #table=/dev/sdb1


could anyone help me to overcome this problem?? thanks in advance...