Dual boot XP/pro and linux (lindows)

[Joel Hammer]

I tried this in my lilo.conf
other=/dev/hdc1
	label=XP

And ran lilo. On reboot, I can boot into linux but not windows. It tries to
boot but fails with a message saying error loading operating system. This is
an improvement over using /dev/hdc, where the computer just hangs.

I tried using the table directive, but it doesn't work. If I use:

table=/dev/hda

in the main section I get an error when lilo runs and putting this into the
"other" section gets a fatal error, no partition information found.

So, any suggestion welcome.

I suspect this may have to do with the fact that windows doesn't like being
on the third (ID2) hard drive, especially since when I installed XP on this
drive it was IDE0. 

Joel



 
On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 10:50:13AM -0500, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote:
> Joel Hammer wrote:
> > I would like to dual boot XP pro and linux (lindows). I have 
> > lindows on a hard drive (IDE0). I physically replaced  this hard drive with
> > a second drive (still IDE0) and installed XP pro.
> > 
> > Now, I would like to have both drives installed at the same time and dual
> > boot this machine.
> > 
> > This seems easy enuf but I can't find any references to dual booting XP and
> > linux with lilo, which is the boot software in lindows.
> > 
> > Any pointers or references to documentation  appreciated.
> > 
> 
> 
> If it doesn't, and your boot loader of choice only boots Linux, a
> lilo.conf entry should look like:
> 
> other=/dev/hda1
> label=windows
>