On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Steven O'Reilly wrote:

> Micheal
>
> These are just guesses.
>
> Where is LILO on hda or hdb?  Is it possible that your bios is pointing at
> harddisk1 (hdb in LILO)as the boot disk?
>

I'm guessing LILO *was* located on hda, since after I ran 'fixmbr' on the
Harddisk0 MBR, LILO stopped appearing. My BIOS had no particular boot
order set, so it was always checking C im pretty sure

> otherwise it could be that the XP boot stuff is on partition hda1 rather
> than at the mbr of hda so it is not visible to the boot process.

I'm guessing this could be the case, how can I change this?

> the following link could help
>
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LILO.html
>

Reading now... THanks for your help Steven!

> regards
>
> Steven
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