LILO boot mgr help

[Ole' Salty]

:confused: Hi. Ihave Linux on a drive alone. I also have Windows on another drive that I need in the same machine. I want to be able to boot from either drive when the machine comes up.

Have tried several things ,all without success.LILO is installed on the Linux drive in the MBR. ( Mandrake 9.2 ).When I add the windows drive to the boot loader ,I get an err stating ( doesn't have a valid boot signiture ). Both of these drives are SATA. How can I accomplish This. Thanks.

[bascule]

It may be that you have to set the second drive (windows) as bootable.

Using
cfdisk /dev/hdb <-maybe

highlight the windows partition and just press return on the bootable menu option in cfdisk, you should now see

boot

appear beside the windows partition.

worth a go.

dont forget to 'write' before exiting :D