LILO Dual-Boot: Linux OK, but XP no go!

[satchi]

Hello, I just got a new computer that came w/ Windows XP Pro pre-installed. I want the computer to dual-boot w/ RedHat Linux, so I installed it, configured it, and used LILO as boot-up.

After some tweeking w/ the lilo.conf file, I managed to get the LILO boot-up menu to work and I could select Linux and it boots fine, but for Windows, when I select that and press enter, it blinks and then nothing happens. In the background, I see:

Loading Windows

LILO

Then it goes back to the LILO boot-up selection menu.

I have two hard drives, the first is where Windows exists in: hde

The second one is where Linux is, which has 4 partitions I believe, all created when installing Linux: hdg

lba32 is in the .conf file, and boot is using /dev/hdg.
default is linux

What am I doing wrong? Any help/suggestions is appreciated.


Thanks in advance.

 

[jstreich]

LILO is good, but Grub is better at getting along with later WinDOZE OS's... Grub also has utilities to figgure out what bootable partitions you have (there are also conf files if you want to change things arround.

 

[RichardMoran]

satchi,

You say that you've tweaked the lilo.conf file. Have you re-run LILO to update the MBR?

I didn't want to assume that you had, in case you were new to LILO.

If that's no help, maybe you could show the contents of your lilo.conf file.

Rik

 

[fdalmoro]

I find it strange that you had to mess around with the lilo.conf file in the first place. When you install most distros they set that up for you. I usually just change the time it takes to boot.

In any case, you can also try the liloconfig tool to do it properly .

Fernando

 

[satchi]

Ok, I decided to reinstall w/ GRUB. From my understanding, LILO is pretty old, which may not be complatible with Windows XP (NTSF)???... just a speculation

GRUB works fine...