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Re: LILO won't start windows



Hi

Few things to check:

1. Does windows start if you boot from the SCSI disk (e.g. by
disconnecting the IDE drive)?
2. If you boot DOS from a diskette, does it see the windows disk? as
what drive? and what number does it get under DOS's fdisk?
3. I have windows installed on a primary-slave, with lilo on the
primary-master, and to boot windows I use this entry:
----------------------------------------
other = /dev/hdb1
        label = w
        loader = /boot/chain.b
        table = /dev/hdb
        map-drive = 0x80
                to = 0x81
        map-drive = 0x81
                to = 0x80
----------------------------------------
where 0x80 and 0x81 are the drive numbers (in BIOS terms) of the disks.
You can try something like that.

Hope this helps,

	didi

Noam Meltzer wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> About two weeks ago I sent a question requesting help dealing with LILO
> for a friend. I didn't quite get an answer for my problem, probably
> because i didn't send the "lilo.conf" file (mainly because i didn't have
> it on my computer).
> Anyway, now I sent both the file and the original message containing the
> question.
> About the file, I tried adding the line
> "table = /dev/sda"
> in its end, but it didn't help also.
> 
> P.S.
> Happy new year for every1
> 
> --
> Noam Meltzer
> tsnoam@myself.com
> ICQ: 4853872
> 

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> Subject:  LILO problem

> Hi!
> I'm posting this message for a friend.
> I'll start with the symptom:
> when he boots the computer and lilo starts he has options for both
> windows and linux, but he can only start linux. when he types 'windows'
> it
> just returns to the lilo.
> It is a Suse 6.4 system, and the hardware goes like this:
> The windows OS sits on the first partition of a SCSI hard drive
> (/dev/sda1)
> The linux OS sits on the the new UDMA66 drive of his (/dev/hdg#), it's
> "hdg" because the drive is connected to a special card and sits on its
> primary slave.
> Now if any1 can help how to solve this problem of can't getting into
> windows, i'd very appreciate it.
> 
> --
> Noam Meltzer
> tsnoam@myself.com
> ICQ: 4853872
> 
-- End of included mail.

> boot	= /dev/hdg
> vga	= normal
> read-only
> linear
> prompt
> timeout	= 30
> message	= /boot/message
> 
>   image  = /boot/vmlinuz
>   label  = linux
>   root   = /dev/hdg3
>   initrd = /boot/initrd
> 
>   image  = /boot/vmlinuz.suse
>   label  = suse
>   root   = /dev/hdg3
>   initrd = /boot/initrd.suse
> 
>   other  = /dev/sda1
>   label  = windows


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