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Check the harddrive cables and bios settings. Can you boot into anything at all? I'm confused, did you say that you installed the OS, but couldn't boot into it?
But Linux boots ok on hda? If so, all you should have to do is edit the boot parameters for windows in /etc/lilo.conf. Probably it's booting from /dev/hdb, so try /dev/hdb or /dev/hdb1. If you still have no luck, post the contents of lilo.conf and the results of "fdisk hdb"
Cheers
[Edit] ahem: "fdisk -l /dev/hdb" or "fdisk -l", not "fdisk hdb"
i don't know if anyone else has had any luck doing it another way, but
i think that windows is kinda picky. That it needs to be on the first
partiton and that needs to be a primary partition. Which means that
unless its on /dev/hda1 it wont boot properly.
again though, if anyone knows different, feel free to prove me wrong.
Any primary partition will do as far as I know. Some people boot multiple versions of windows on the same drive, so it must be able to boot off higher than the first partition on a drive.
[Edit] It seems that windows has to be on the first primary partition in order to boot multiple versions of windows from later primary partitions.
it can... google for a "dual boot linux windows lilo" and see what that turns up. I think this is a lilo problem- sorry I can't help you much more- I use grub.
I loaded Fedora on a separate HD and couldn't get it to boot either. XP boots fine. I loaded the same version of Fedora on my laptop in another logical drive and it boots great. So no help but more ?????
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