As I see it you have one major problem and that is it looks as though winXP is on a slave drive and that's definitely a no-no. You maybe able to salvage it by creating a small boot partition on hda or switch the disk if the hdb disk is bootable and then reinstall lilo. > Well, I just tried to do it. My problem is that I can't boot my > WindowsXP disk using LILO. The content of /etc/lilo.conf is: > > prompt > timeout=50 > default=linux > boot=/dev/hda > map=/boot/map > install=/boot/boot.b > message=/boot/message > lba32 > > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 > label=linux > initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.20-8.img > read-only > append="root=LABEL=/" > > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.0 > label=linux-2.6.0 > read-only > > other=/dev/hdb1 > label=WindowsXP > table=/dev/hdb > > You see how it looks like now. Thanks in advance. > > Piotrek > > W liÅ?cie z nie, 04-01-2004, godz. 08:30, wintoe pisze: > > It will be just a guess to say exact problem. > > If you could include complete contents of /etc/lilo.conf, it will be helpful > > > > > > Win Toe > > Penguin Millennium > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Piotr G±siorowski <piotrek_gasi@xxxxxxxxxx> > > To: Red Hat Mailing List <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2004 7:34 AM > > Subject: Boot problems with LILO > > > > > > > Hello everyone, > > > > > > I'm quite a newbie in Linux and I've got a question. I've got two disk. > > > hda - Linux RH 9.0 ( hda1 - / , hda2 - /home, hda3 - swap ) and hdb - > > > WindowsXP (hdb1 - NTFS partition ). I don't want to change my boot > > > device in BIOS and I've heard it's possible to choose from what > > > partition the system will boot in LILO. I've edited it like that: > > > > > > other=/dev/hdb1 > > > label=WindowsXP > > > table=/dev/hdb > > > > > > than I run LILO and it doesn't show any problems. And when I restart my > > > computer and choose WindowsXP in the menu, my PC stops. What should I > > > do? Thanks for help in advance. > > > > > > Piotrek > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > redhat-list mailing list > > > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > > > > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
