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Hello, I installed Slackware 10 recently, its running fine, and I've only had trouble with a few little thing so far (which I was easily able to remedy with advice from people on this forum).
I'm just having trouble with my LILO right now, when I choose Windows from my LILO it never loads, just sits there as if it was thinking about loading windows. Now the weird part is that I had this working fine before and unfortunately I'm not sure what i did to bung it up. I have reinstalled lilo with liloconfig and looked at lilo.config but cant see whats wrong there. Windows is installed on /dev/hdd1, and linux on /dev/hda1. I can easily get Windows to boot by turning off the primary drive (hda) in the BIOS so it only loads Windows, but it should load from lilo.
I also have the same problem... I have a dual-boot system, having windows 98 on /dev/hda1 and slackware 10 on /dev/hdb1, it was working fine before but when i reinstall liloconf, i arrive to the same problem it just displays "Loading Windows" and nothing happens...
btw here's lilo.conf
# LILO configuration file
# generated by 'liloconfig'
#
# Start LILO global section
boot = /dev/hda
#compact # faster, but won't work on all systems.
prompt
timeout = 300
# VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x256
vga = 773
# Normal VGA console
# vga = normal
# VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x64k
# vga=791
# VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x32k
# vga=790
# VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x256
# vga=773
# VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x64k
# vga=788
# VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x32k
# vga=787
# VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x256
# vga=771
# VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x64k
# vga=785
# VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x32k
# vga=784
# VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x256
# vga=769
# ramdisk = 0 # paranoia setting
# End LILO global section
# Windows bootable partition config begins
other = /dev/hda1
label = Windows
table = /dev/hda
# Windows bootable partition config ends
# Linux bootable partition config begins
image = /boot/vmlinuz
root = /dev/hdb1
label = Linux
read-only # Non-UMSDOS filesystems should be mounted read-only for checking
# Linux bootable partition config ends
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