[lug] LILO won't boot windows

[Ferdinand P. Schmid]

Scott,
Can you post the contents of your lilo.conf file with your e-mail message and
include how your disks are configured (windows on /dev/hdb, linux on /dev/hda or
master/slave info on the ide controllers)?  Your lilo.conf is very likely stored
in /etc.

Ferdinand

"Scott T. Kelley" wrote:

> 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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> Scott T. Kelley, Ph.D.
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> E-mail: Scott.Kelley at Colorado.edu
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