Doug, Check your address header. You are sending two copies of your mesages to the list.
Your windows partition is at hda2 - the second partition on the primary hard drive. That's going to cause a problem. Windows insists that it be the first partition. Changing lilo.conf won't help. The only reliable way to set up a dual (or higher) boot setup with Windows is to install Windows first, let it format the whole drive and then grab as much of the free space as appropriate during the Mandrake install. If you've got bunches of stuff on the Windows partition, you may want to borrow another drive and copy the Win to that. Then reinstall Windows, reformatting the drive FAT32, copy your files back to that drive, make sure you've defragmented the drive and then reinstall Mandrake, having DiskDrake take the total space you need from the Windows partition,setting up your /, /boot, /home, swap, etc. partitions. Most of the stuff I've seen on dual booting does point this out - including the Mandrake documentation. I'm sure that doesn't make you feel any better at this point, however. Good luck. Terry Smith Hatchville, MA On Tue, 2001-12-25 at 20:21, Doug Lerner wrote: > This is my lilo.conf. I am not familiar with lilo. Does anybody see > anything I might try before trying the more radical idea of starting over > with both Windows and Linux? > > boot=/dev/hda > map=/boot/map > install=/boot/boot.b > vga=normal > default=linux > keytable=/boot/jp106.klt > lba32 > prompt > timeout=50 > message=/boot/message > menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw > image=/boot/vmlinuz > label=linux > root=/dev/hda5 > append=" devfs=mount" > read-only > image=/boot/vmlinuz > label=failsafe > root=/dev/hda5 > append=" devfs=mount failsafe" > read-only > other=/dev/hda2 > label=windows > table=/dev/hda > > Thanks, > > doug > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tuesday, December 25, 2001): > > >On Tuesday 25 December 2001 04:07 am, you wrote: > >> I would actually like to figure out how make Windows *bootable* again. It > >> doesn't seem to boot even if I choose the "Windows" option from the > >> startup screen. > >> > > > >Maybe, post your lilo.conf > >Also explain which drine/partition windows is on. > >We might see something, else its difficult to help > > > >Gerald > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > > ------------=_1009329671-11608-1600 > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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