RE: [newbie] Booting Windows with LILO
Ummm... i would of thought that fdisk /mbr would overwrite LILO (i might be wrong - anyone knows ? ;o) but to get to windows - press the tab button when the screen shows LILO -- it should reply something like :- Linux windows floppy so if you want windows just type "windows" at the LILO prompt ! Well thats what i do on my system that has 2 hard drives - 1 windows the other Linux... hope this helps. Marc -Original Message- From: John I. Azeke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 05 August 2000 11:31 PM To: Linux Mandrake Subject: [newbie] Booting Windows with LILO I sent this yesterday, but have not seen it posted, so I'l try again: Hello, I am running Mandrake 7.1 on a Tyan Tiger 133 Dual Pentium III MB with one 800EB PIII Porcessor, 128 MB RAM, Diamond Viper V770Ultra Video. I have two hard drives: one with two windows partitions and the other with Mandrake. I have tried to boot windows several times, but to no avail. I only get a "system1" message and nothing more happens. Sometimes it would say "Starting Windows 98" and nothing more would happen. Could someone please give me some advice on configuring LILO to allow me to boot to windows. I used the c:fdisk /mbr command to allow windows to boot on its own and use a Mandrake Boot Disk to boot into linux, but this gets annoying. I would appreciate any help. Thank You
Re: [newbie] Booting Windows with LILO
On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, John I. Azeke wrote: I am running Mandrake 7.1 on a Tyan Tiger 133 Dual Pentium III MB with one 800EB PIII Porcessor, 128 MB RAM, Diamond Viper V770Ultra Video. I have two hard drives: one with two windows partitions and the other with Mandrake. I have tried to boot windows several times, but to no avail. I only get a "system1" message and nothing more happens. Sometimes it would say "Starting Windows 98" and nothing more would happen. Hi John, Did you set up a separate small partition for Lilo/Grub to boot from, or did you let it get into the boot sector? I found that a separate partition is better (at least for me). Paul -- Cats could have ruled the Universe, but couldn't be bothered. -Paul Gray )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21+Linux Mandrake 7.1=-
[newbie] Booting Windows with LILO
I sent this yesterday, but have not seen it posted, so I'l try again: Hello, I am running Mandrake 7.1 on a Tyan Tiger 133 Dual Pentium III MB with one 800EB PIII Porcessor, 128 MB RAM, Diamond Viper V770Ultra Video. I have two hard drives: one with two windows partitions and the other with Mandrake. I have tried to boot windows several times, but to no avail. I only get a "system1" message and nothing more happens. Sometimes it would say "Starting Windows 98" and nothing more would happen. Could someone please give me some advice on configuring LILO to allow me to boot to windows. I used the c:fdisk /mbr command to allow windows to boot on its own and use a Mandrake Boot Disk to boot into linux, but this gets annoying. I would appreciate any help. Thank You
