Dual boot. Lilo. Grr..

[Vaseline]

Oki. Thanks in advance chaps.

Primary OS is Win2K, on my master drive.
Installed RedHat 7.1 on slave.

Towards the end of the installation, it gives you the option to install lilo to your /boot partition, or to the MBR, right? - Well, i'm pretty sure i asked it to install it to the /boot partition. [on a seperate drive to my Windows install.]

Problem being: When i get the pretty RedHat splash screen/lilo effort, I only get the option to boot to linux. Press tab, blah, blah.. it has no idea I have a Windows drive.

Now, I asked and read around a little and was told I needed to play around in /etc/lilo.conf.

I noticed the first line of the file was "boot=/dev/hda1". Now this is my Windows disk, isn't it? [I'm not 100% sure of anything] If so, is this normal.. or have I infact installed lilo to the MBR?

[There are references to hdb lower down in the file]

Forgetting about this for the moment, I followed my instructions, and added the following lines to the lilo.conf file:

"other=/dev/hda1
label=windows
table=/dev/hda"

I thought this would display 'windows' on my pretty splash screen and allow me to boot it from there. Alas, no. Any fixes would be much appreciated guys. Happy teaching. ;-)

On a side note, any offered help has to be console-based.. my Geforce drivers are on my windows desktop. :-p Hehe..

Tim/Vaseline

[Saptech]

If you do a search on Dual Bootiing, you will find plenty of hits! This been asked lots of times.

[GaryJones32]

Hi,

I think I might try to first erase LILO from where it is

From LINUX u can do it by typing

lilo -u /dev/hda

i think that will uninstall lilo

research before you do it

or from DOS

I Think you can restore your Windows 2000

MBR

Research the technique but used to be the command

fdisk /mbr

i think

I think rescue for Win 2000 is from the CD not floppy.

don't know exactly how to get to DOS.

Then after you get your Windoze back try editing

WINDOZ C:/BOOT.INI

described http://www.enterprisedt.com/publications/dual_boot.html

MICRO$OFT made this one hard enough didn't they !

[l01yuk]

Vaseline: Ok, you are very very close and well done for doing some research first. The step you are missing is to run the program /sbin/lilo which will cement the changes you have made to the /etc/lilo.conf file.

As was stated before this question has been asked before and answered. A place you should also look is on the search page (third button in from the right) which by now is pretty much a library of answers.

[Vaseline]

Ok, well thanks guys. Much appreciated. I'll let you know how I go on when I have a dabble in a mo.

It does appear there are several similar posts - I'm looking at one. I just glanced at couple at the top of the list last time and they looked like they were going nowhere fast. :) Apologies. I'll search harder in future.

[Vaseline]

..and all he had to do was type 'lilo'. ;)

You learn something every day. Hey, maybe I'll be posting something useful for others one day soon. ;)

Thx again guys, and see y'around.

Vas