Hey everyone just switched to Slack from mandrake and i have win2k and slack on the same box but when i boot up win2k isnt in lilo i used cfdisk and showed this: cfdisk 2.12

Disk Drive: /dev/hda
Size: 20020396032 bytes, 20.0 GB
Heads: 240 Sectors per Track: 63 Cylinders: 2586

Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Label] Size (MB)
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hda1 Primary NTFS 8391.73
hda2 Primary Linux ext2 9011.04
hda3 Primary Linux swap 2616.61


So i am guess ing everything is good i just need to tweak somthing and i am not quite sure how to do this, but the install was killer no problems except for the dual booting heh. your mission if you decide to take and you will lol, is to help this n00b thanks

It sounds as though you went for the "simple" option when you installed lilo. As root, run pkgtool, one of the options is to rerun install scripts. Choose it and then choose to reinstall lilo, select the "expert" install of lilo. You can then specify your linux and windows partitions.

hey thanx X that did it,i appreciate the help

Why not just run liloconfig right away? What did I miss?

Or just run liloconfig

Pick the expert lilo install - it will ask you which hd it needs to reside on; whether mbr, floppy or other; it will ask for your linux root directory and will ask for your windows partition. AFAIK the simple install only seems to pick up linux and fat32 partitions.

I have the same issue - though my Linux is installed on the 1st and 2nd partition of my hda (XP is installed on the 3rd partition.

I reran the liloconf (expert), said it added two partitions to the boot options (looks ok in /etc/lilo.conf), but windows still boots when I power cycle (I can boot linux using the boot disk).

fdisk:
/dev/hda1 Linux
/dev/hda2 Linux swap
/dev/hda3 HPFS/NTFS (* = Boot column)

Do I need to change the boot to /dev/hda1?

thanks in advance..jw