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Old 06-11-2003, 10:57 AM   #1
g3nk1
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lilo problems from redhat 9.0


i had windows xp
i partitioned a drive via partition magic 8.0 (made a swap (set before c: ) and ext2 partition (set after c: ) and set mount for ext2 as / and set as primary)
i restarted after i partitioned and the intel boot loader kicked in and said it couldnt load the os. so i put in the red hat 9.0 cd and installed it (and installed lilo), but when i restarted, i was still getting the "couldn't load os" error. I found that I could in fact get into red hat 9.0, but only if i use the linux boot disk and I can't get into Windows Xp.

I'm a newbie when it comes to linux. PLEASE HELP ME!

thx
 
Old 06-11-2003, 11:04 AM   #2
fancypiper
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Have you tried the Windows XP Recovery Console?

You must not have lilo configured correctly yet. Edit your config file and save, then run /sbin/lilo for the changes to take effect.

LILO mini HOWTO
Multiboot with LILO HOWTO
LILO, Linux Crash Rescue HOW-TO
Installing a bootloader
 
  


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