I Installed Windows 2000 professional(ntfs) and then Linux mandrake 7 and when I boot the computer the lilo menu apears, it doesn't give me the choice to boot to windows 2000, WHY?? it is because it's a NTFS Partition??? please Help Me!!!

Linux is only in the experimental stages of reading NTFS. I can't boot from it yet. What you need is a small(>30MB) FAT of FAT32 partition at the beginning of your drive so both OS'es can boot, or you can do like I did. I have NT installed on a 2 GB fat partition and gave it a 6GB NTFS partition. I gave Linux the last 7GB on the drive.

Boot to linux using floppy disk, then change to root and run df this will show a list of the device (hard-disk) mapped to the system dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/bootsect.lnx size=512 where hda1 is the hard-disk where linux is booted to. The file bootsect.lnx will hold the boot record to the linux parititon. Now copy this file to a floppy disk using either doscp or mcopy (I cann't remember the exact name but you can check). Then boot to win2000, copy the bootsect.lnx to where the file boot.ini is located. Then edit this file to include the line such as: c:\bootsect.lnx="Linux" where c: is the drive name where boot.ini is located. If everything goes well, you should now be able to log into linux using NT loader from the 'luxury' menu prompt.