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Name: DM
Date: October 19, 2002 at 03:09:50 Pacific
OS: Linux / windows ME
CPU/Ram: 733 / 256
Comment:

I first installed windows, then Linux on my other hard disk. I installed lilo on my master MBR. I can boot linux without problems, everything runes fine, just when I choose windows in my lilo it says "starting windows" and then nothing...

I checked my lilo.conf file and everythings seems fine.

Must I do an update and reinstall lilo?
Somebody better suggestions?



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Response Number 1
Name: Lawrence
Date: October 19, 2002 at 04:01:56 Pacific
Reply:

Apparently, /etc/lilo.conf is not fine as
you have mentioned or else you would be able
to boot Windows. I assume Windows is on
the first partition of the first drive.
And if it is, make sure it has the following
entries in /etc/lilo.conf

image=/dev/hda1
optional
label=windows

Save it and run "lilo" again so the new
entry for windows will be in effect. Reboot
and see if you now can get into Windows!!!

Lawrence


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Response Number 2
Name: DM
Date: October 19, 2002 at 04:21:02 Pacific
Reply:

Those three lines ARE in my lilo.conf!!!

"Starting windows"...
then nothing


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Response Number 3
Name: Lawrence
Date: October 19, 2002 at 04:29:49 Pacific
Reply:

Okay, why don't you post the entire
/etc/lilo.conf so I or others can take a
look at it to see what is the problem?

Lawrence


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Response Number 4
Name: Richard
Date: October 19, 2002 at 04:34:11 Pacific
Reply:

Are you sure that Windows is on the first partition of your first harddisk? (/dev/hda1)


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Response Number 5
Name: DM
Date: October 19, 2002 at 04:37:59 Pacific
Reply:

boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
message=/boot/message
linear
default=Linux

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.2-2
label=Linux
read-only
root=/dev/hdb6
append="hdd=ide-scsi"

other=/dev/hda1
optional
label=Windows


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Response Number 6
Name: Lawrence
Date: October 19, 2002 at 05:10:30 Pacific
Reply:

When you boot up Linux (which distro by the
way?), does Linux automatically mount
Windows partition for you? And if it does,
can you also post your /etc/fstab so that
we can be sure your Window (oh) ME is on
the first partition of the first drive!!!

Lawrence


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Response Number 7
Name: DM
Date: October 19, 2002 at 05:19:15 Pacific
Reply:

it is red hat 7.1

fstab:

LABEL=/ / ext2 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
/dev/hdb5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0


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Response Number 8
Name: Lawrence
Date: October 19, 2002 at 05:35:11 Pacific
Reply:

It doesn't look like your Windows (oh) ME
gets mounted from Linux!!! The next step
would be to look in your bootup message to
see if the kernel "sees" your Windows
parittion! Type this at the prompt at look
to see if you can find something that says
/dev/hda1 (or /dev/hda),

dmesg | more

Let us know what you see for /dev/hda!

Lawrence



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Response Number 9
Name: DM
Date: October 19, 2002 at 05:38:20 Pacific
Reply:

When I type /dev/hda or /dev/hda1 I see "no permissions" or something


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Response Number 10
Name: Lawrence
Date: October 19, 2002 at 07:14:25 Pacific
Reply:

Did you try to mount your Windows partition
as root, right???

Lawrence


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Response Number 11
Name: roberto
Date: October 21, 2002 at 14:55:51 Pacific
Reply:

i have the same problem! the curious thing is that i had mandrake on hda and win me on hdb and it worked. when i put debian over mandrake win didnt boor anymore. my info:

roberto@desktop:~$ dmesg |more |grep hdb
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
hdb: IBM-DPTA-372050, ATA DISK drive
hdb: 40088160 sectors (20525 MB) w/1961KiB Cache, CHS=2495/255/63
hdb: hdb1 hdb2

from lilo:
other=/dev/hdb1
label="Windows(hdb1)"

from fstab:
/dev/hdb1 /win_c vfat codepage=850 0 0
/dev/hdb5 /win_d vfat codepage=850 0 0

thanks!


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