There is a problem when you try to boot windows from lilo and it is not the "first" device. I am not sure if that is what you are dealing with here, but I remember when I had windows on /dev/hdc and linux on /dev/hda. I had to do something like hda=0x??, hdc=0x?? for the windows section of the lilo.conf file.
Shannon On Fri, 2002-01-04 at 12:37, Boyd Davezac wrote: > I hadn't thought of doing it that way Jason, thanks. I was using lilo -b > /dev/hde -s /boot/winxp-bootloader. To back it up and when xp wouldn't boot > from lilo, I tried lilo -U /dev/hde -s /boot/winxp-bootloader. I thought I > was putting the xp bootloader back, but what happened was that the computer > just kept rebooting when it tried to read the boot record. Not sure what the > problem was. I guess "dd" would have been safer. Anyway, xp's bootloader is > gone and we don't have an xp bootdisk as we used a win98 bootdisk to load > xp. I just talked to him and he doesn't want xp he's putting win98 back on. > > Here's an interesting thing though, he loaded xp on fat 32 instead of NTFS > and the win98 boot disk would just hang when we tried to boot to it to try > to fdisk /mbr. I was clueless. He came up with the bright idea after I left > last night to use linux fdisk to change the partition id of xp from "fat 32 > (LBA)" to I think he said just fat 32 or fat 16. Then the win98 bootdisk > loaded fine. This doesn't make any sense to me. Microsoft has some weird > coding practices I guess. > > To answer your question Shannon, he has two cdroms (one's a burner) and an > ATA 100 40 GB disk drive. It is only recognized by 2.4 kernels. /dev/hda is > his regular cdrom, /dev/hdc is his burner, and /dev/hde is the harddrive. > The partitions are setup as: > hde1 = xp > hde2 = extended > hde5 = linux root > hde6 = swap > hde7 = usr > hde8 = home > > I don't think it possible to set lilo in the extended partition and set > /dev/hde5 as bootable. Can BIOS handle that if it's in an extended > partition? > > Thanks for your responses though, I will try Jason's method next time I try > to do a dual boot with xp. > > Boyd > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. > > ================================================ > BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group > Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. > Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change > your subscription information. > ================================================ -- __________________________________________________________________ Shannon Roddy California Institute of Technology [EMAIL PROTECTED] LIGO Livingston Observatory ph: (225)686-3106 19100 LIGO Lane fx: (225)686-7189 Livingston, LA 70754 ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================
