various windows boot options with lilo...possible?
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various windows boot options with lilo...possible?
Hi everybody!
I´m new at this forum... I´m running with a computer with various operative systems (in different partitions, of course); one is SUSE Linux 8.0 and the other are Windows 98, Windows 2000 and Windows XP. I have configured Lilo for the Master Boot Record, but i can´t choose there what windows partition i want to load. I have to choose "windows" option and then choose using NTLOADER of Windows which "windows" i want, (2000, XP or 98)... and my question is: żIs there a way to choose directly from lilo which "windows" you want? żAnd if so, how? (because if i modify lilo.conf to run directly from a windows partition, it prompts a message of error...)
thanks, but.... i have tried it and still doesn´t work with various windows partitions, because the standard boot loader of windows is only in one of them. So, my problem is that i have to run this loader which administer my windows partitions... and i would like than lilo took care of it, so i wouldn´t have to choose first in lilo the "windows" option, and then in ntloader which "windows" i like....
but, yes windows don´t require its boot loader in the MBR!
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