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Hello. How's things? Good...

Part one

I am having problems creating a functioning boot disk in Slackware 9.

I use the makebootdisk option, and start to make a LILO boot disk using the expert option.

I set up my linux partition and my XPee partition with no problems.

I use the kernel in /usr/src/arch/i386/boot/bzImage (I think... (: ) and it appears to be going OK.

Then when I reboot, I am confronted with a LILO screen, with only one boot option called 'mount', which I did not make. And at the bottom half of the screen, I have what used to be the screen my first boot disk had.

Now, this boots into Linux fine, but I would like the option for Windows.

What is going on?

Part two

Why can I not edit the info on a boot disk from Linux? It shows up as garbled information. But the thing is, I can read it from Windows fine. Is that weird?

Thanks for your help.