Booting XP from Linux...

JapanFred · 03-31-2003, 11:20 AM

I have mounted the other harddrive, and i can play my MP3s etc from it. Now i want Linuxs Bootup manager to recognise it, and allow me to boot into Windows XP. I really need this, as my boot.ini got Screwed, and now i cant get into XP ><

I'm using RedHat linux 7.1 in GNOME.

Crashed_Again · 03-31-2003, 11:23 AM

Are you using LILO or GRUB?

JapanFred · 03-31-2003, 11:43 AM

LILO.

Crashed_Again · 03-31-2003, 11:53 AM

Could you post your current lilo.conf file. I imagine you don't have a section in it dealing with your XP partition. Something like:

other=/dev/hda1
optional
label=XP

???

JapanFred · 04-01-2003, 09:12 AM

boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
message=/boot/message
linear
default=linux

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.2-2
label=linux
read-only
root=/dev/hda5
append="hdc=ide-scsi"

other=/dev/hda1
optional
label=dos

<END OF FILE>

Thats it.

pilot1 · 04-01-2003, 09:32 PM

That looks like is should work..
What's the error message when you choose DOS in LILO?

PopeKevinI · 04-02-2003, 07:25 AM

Wild guess here:

XP is on a second hard drive, right? Shouldn't it be hdb1?

Newb myself, but that sounds like it to me