Dual boot XP/pro and linux (lindows)

[Tom Wilson]

On Saturday 29 March 2003 08:50 am, Joel Hammer's voice rose above the 
ones in my head and stated:

> 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.

It doesn't but you can trick it.  I had to do the same thing with my new 
PC w/ win98 on hdb so the kids can play games.  

Here is relevant part of my lilo.conf.  You may have to adjust as 
necessary if it is hdc.

other=/dev/hdb1
	label=windows
	map-drive = 0x81
	to = 0x80
	map-drive = 0x80
	to = 0x81

HTH.

--Tom Wilson