Cameron, 
I allowed linux to automatically set my partitions.  I would have
thought this would have correctly set it all up.  
I will try to have a look and see what I can do.

thanks
On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 17:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> It sounds like you have not set the linux partition as the "active" one.
> Use linux fdisk to check and possibly fix that.
> 
> You should never have to reinstall, assuming you have a good install in the
> first place.
> 
> Cameron.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Greg [mailto:gklofa@;adsl.on.net] 
> > Sent: Monday, 4 November 2002 15:51
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Booting linux
> > 
> > 
> > Hi, 
> > new to linux and need help.  I currently have windows xp 
> > installed on my system (on a fat32 partition).  I really 
> > would love to get rid of it all together, except I need it 
> > for games I play.  Anyway, when I install linux, I can't get 
> > the boot loader to work.  Windows was installed first, and I 
> > install linux after, using the automatic partition option, 
> > and choose lilo as my boot loader, and have it install the 
> > boot information on the fist sector of the linux partition 
> > (have also tried installing telling it to use the mbr 
> > option), but the computer still boots straight into bloody 
> > windows.  I currently have to use a boot disk to access 
> > linux.  What is going wrong?  Is there a way to get linux to 
> > boot properly without having to re-install everything again, 
> > or even if I have to re-install, how do I get it all to work. 
> >  When selecting partitions and the such, linux actually gives 
> > me a message saying there may be a problem with the way the 
> > system is set up and accessing /boot, and strongly reccomends 
> > me to create a boot disk due to possible problems loading into linux. 
> > 
> > thanks for the help, cause this is really getting me annoyed. 
> > 
> > regards Greg.
> > 
> > 
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