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Originally Posted by saikee
If your Win2k is in partition 3 then it is NOT a primary partition.
All logical partitions start at the 5th position.
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Yes, but I showed the physical layout.
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Originally Posted by saikee
Yes Lilo can boot both WinMe and Win2k separately only if they were installed separately originally. The way it has been set up in your system means NTldr's boot files are deposited inside WinMe partition and may not be available in Win2k partition. These files are needed if Win2k is booted independently.
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Not necessarily, since I was able to fix it. Read on.
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Originally Posted by saikee
You can click this link[/url] to see an example of how 3 Dos and 3 Windows are booted by Grub. Lilo can be done similarly as it has its own method of hiding partitions and re-map the drive order.
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I've read the tutorial, but it's not what I was looking for. You installed Windows on primary partitions only. The tutorial says "All Dos, Windows, Solaris and BSDs need to be installed and booted from primary partitions". That's wrong, by the way.
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Originally Posted by haertig
You have to go through the nt loader because when you installed the second Windows OS it "saw" the first one. This is just Windows thinking it's the only fish in the pond, trying to be helpful, and screwing things up. See the URL below for a good description of what happened and how to prevent it next time.
Windows can boot from a logical partition. I do it myself. But it doesn't like to do this by default and you will have to make some minor changes to force it to do so. I wouldn't want the one nt loader booting the two different flavors of Windows either, because then they are dependent on each other. If you remove the wrong one, things won't boot.
The best website on this dual booting stuff that covers Windows in logicals as well as preventing the nt loader from it's default "I am king,I must control everything!" behavior, see:
www .goodells. net/multiboot/
Track down and follow every link on this website. It covers things from a Windows perspective, but there are many other sources that cover LILO and GRUB.
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Thank! That's exactly what I was looking for. You see, I wasn't trying to boot directly from LILO because I didn't want to press an extra button. By making each OS independent from each other I can, for example, get rid of the WinMe partition any day without losing the capacity to boot to Win2K.
I didn't followed the same procedure the tutorial explains bacause I had already installed Win2K, but all I needed to fix it was taken from there. It even explains how to fix the 8 GB barrier! I highly recommend this tutorial to understand how the booting process works.
These are the steps I took to fix the boot (once Win2K was installed):
1) I used the sys command to restore the boot sector of the WinME partition
2) I copied all the Win2K booting files from the WinMe partition to the Win2K partition (ntldr, boot.ini and friends)
3) I edited boot.ini to leave only the Win2K OS (so ntldr wont show the selection menu)
4) I fixed the boot sector of the Win2K partition as explained on the tutorial
5) I added the Win2K OS to lilo.conf and reinstalled lilo.
That's it! Now I can boot the three OS without problems.
So, to anwser the question ¿Can LILO boot Windows from a logical partition? That's a big YES!
