[lug] LILO won't boot windows

[Bonnell, Doug]

Let's see your partition information (using fdisk /dev/hda) and
your /etc/lilo.conf file.

For LILO to boot Win98, lilo.conf has:

    "other=/dev/hdaN              where 'N' = the FAT partition
         label=Win98"

fdisk should show your FAT partition as being active, also.

Doug

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Scott T. Kelley [SMTP:kelleys at ucsu.colorado.edu]
> Sent:	Wednesday, January 03, 2001 1:46 PM
> To:	lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject:	[lug] LILO won't boot windows
> 
> 
> Dear Bluggers,
> 
> I have a serious problem with my new Linux installation that I hope you
> can
> help me with. Simply put, LILO refuses to boot windows. I have two hard
> drives and I installed Windows 98 on one (2 years ago) and just upgraded
> to
> Linux-Mandrake 7.2 on the second. I had 6.0 on there before and it worked
> just fine. However, after completely overwriting the drive with the 7.2
> installation, I cannot get LILO to boot Windows.
> 
> In fact, before I set the default to Windows, LILO didn't even detect the
> Windows drive. When I then defaulted to Windows, the LILO choices would
> come
> up, but it just would not boot windows. I noticed that the linux start-up
> had some error about a bad block on the windows hard drive or something.
> 
> Has anyone encountered similar problems? Any help you can give me would be
> *very* appreciated. Thanks! -Scott
> 
> -------------------
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