Dual boot help
I have asystem with two hard drives.
Primary master I have win XP this is my default OS Primary slave I have Slackware 10 When I boot up the welcome screen come up with selection of either XP or Linux. When I choose XP it works fine. But when I select Linux I am getting following message Windows could not start because the following file is missing pr corrupt (windows root > system 32 \hal.dll. Please re install a copy of the above drive. I am confused please help |
I don't know what boot loader you are using, but perhaps your boot.ini is corrupted. Check out this link here, for more details on hal.dll:
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000490.htm |
Assuming that you're using lilo, please post the contents of your lilo.conf file (which is in the /etc directory) That would be helpful info -- J.W.
Likewise if you're using GRUB, please post the contents of it |
I will give you what my window boot loader and lilo look like
[boot loader] time out =30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)WINDOWS (operating system) multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)WINDOWS = Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition C:\BOOTSECT>LNX = 'Linux' Lilo LILO confugaration file # generated by 'liloconfig' # # Start LILO global section boot= /dev/hdb message - boot/boot_message.txt prompt timeout = 50 # Override dangerous defaults that rewrite the partition table: change- rules reset # VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x256 vga = 773 # Normal VGA console (another 18 lines of various VESA detail which I don't want to re type) # End LILO global section # Linux bootable partition config begins image = boot/vmlinuz root = /dev/hdb1 label = Linux read only # Linux bootable partition config ends I hope this info will help you to give valuble suggestions |
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