I have XP installed on the first partition of my IDE 0 harddrive (approx 35gig partiton) and Mandrake installed on the second partion, approx 5gig. XP was installed first then Mandrake with Lilo. I can boot either system from Lilo without problems I just want to change some of the defaults.
Drake Zero �<:|)> Mandrake 8.2 KDE 2.2.2 Abit KT7A motherboard Santa Cruz sound card by Turtle Beach IDE 0 -> 42Gig, IDE 1 - 14Gig All In Wonder 128 AGP video with TV tuner Lite On CDRW UMAX scanner 1220S Zoom Modem 3Com Eatherlink XL -> DSL connection Adaptec AIC-7850 PCI SCSI adapter On Monday 15 July 2002 07:50 pm, you wrote: > i boot winxp pro using ntfs via lilo so it can be done, i'm not sure what > you mean by '....windows partition, the boot partition' > it appears that you managed to install lilo during the install? could you > describe your partitions and where you are installing lilo? > > bascule > > On Monday 15 July 2002 9:34 pm, you wrote: > > I installed Mandrake as the second OS after installing WindowsXP. I set > > it to use the graphical Lilo loader and I'd like to make some changes in > > the Lilo configuration. Using the Mandrake Control Center and the Lilo > > configuration wizard any change I make returns the error message > > "Installation of LILO failed. The following error occured: Device 0x0301: > > Partition type 0x07 does not seem suitable for a LILO boot sector". Is > > this because I'm using an XP NTFS file system on the Windows partition, > > the boot partition? How can I make changes to the Lilo configuration and > > have them stick? > > > > Thanks > > Drake0
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