Glenn Williams - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Andrew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 4:20 AM Subject: Re: Someone has to ask...
> On Wednesday 31 October 2001 02:32, Glenn Williams wrote: > > Hi, Group: > > > > I know it's a nasty question, but someone has to ask it; will the > > current LILO boot Windows XP? > > it boots the vfat format quite ok, am running so-called xp 'professional' > here. I cannot tell you if it works in nTFS format which is what xp will try > and do on a clean install. Probably all is ok. > Hi, Mike: Thanks for the insight. I "upgraded" my win98SE to winXP Home Edition and in the process destroyed my LILO. I am working on recovering, now. I used the recipe for making a system boot disk which is found in the SuSE 7.2 Pro Reference Manual, and also the one on SuSE's web site (Knowledge Base), but both failed to boot my installed system. I can boot it OK with the "official" boot disk and CD # 1 of the boxed set, but that takes a long time and it's a royal PIA. There were several references on the SuSE mailing list to /boot/vmlinuz and /boot/vmlinuz.suse being the same kernel; the second copy is there in the event you destroy your original. Maybe I should try making a boot disk using /boot/vmlinuz.suse. My biggest problem is that I'm not sure how to restore LILO to the MBR, where it used to live. I had to do fdisk /MBR just so I could boot 'something.' Well, I didn't intend to go on like this. Anyway, thanks for responding, Mike. Regards, Glenn - Glenn Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User # 135678 _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
