It seems all of a sudden I cant boot to my xp partition. I have lilo installed and configured properly.

I have a samba server installed and I can view the data fine. I suspected foul play and I completly re-installed mandrake 10. So i'm thinking a file got damaged or perhaps deleted. I dont have a boot disk handy. Any ideas?

What does your /etc/lilo.conf look like?
What error, if any, do you get when you try to boot windows?

I dont get any errors...It just stays blank.

boot=/dev/hde
map=/boot/map
default="linux-enterprise"
keytable=/boot/us.klt
prompt
nowarn
timeout=100
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
disk=/dev/hde bios=0x80
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="linux"
root=/dev/hde1
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent"
vga=788
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="linux-nonfb"
root=/dev/hde1
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="devfs=mount acpi=ht"
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz-enterprise
label="linux-enterprise"
root=/dev/hde1
initrd=/boot/initrd-enterprise.img
append="devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent"
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="failsafe"
root=/dev/hde1
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="failsafe acpi=ht devfs=nomount"
read-only
other=/dev/hde2
label="windows"
table=/dev/hde
other=/dev/fd0
label="floppy"
unsafe

Hi af_dafe,

Can you show us your box's configuration ?
On what hard disk, did you install XP and linux.
Did you on a chance, change or add your hard disks ?
Because it's weird that your boot is on /dev/hde even for your XP .
Where is your /dev/hda ( primary master hard disk )?

You shouldn't be booting into windows any more anyway.

Just kidding.