Add OS and Hd and cant get 2nd OS to boot

Gates1026 · 01-19-2004, 04:08 PM

So here is my situation........

I have Slackware 9.1 installed on /dev/hda just fine. For 2 of my classes I need to run Windows so I added a 2nd Hard drive as /dev/hdb. I disconnected the primary HD and installed Windows on the 2nd Hard drive. The windows install works just fine. I am having trouble getting lilo to boot Windows. I use dropline gnome so I used the GUI config tool and set up windows to boot off /dev/hdb. When I try it on boot it just says "Loading Windows...." and hangs. Any ideas? Thanks in advance

Andrew Benton · 01-19-2004, 05:06 PM

In my experience lilo is not as good as Grub. If you can choose Grub, give it a go.

Gates1026 · 01-19-2004, 05:22 PM

can I just up and switch to grub from lilo?

tincat2 · 01-20-2004, 02:19 AM

i've read a few times that xp installs itself on the first partition of the first hd on the system(including mbr), so perhaps there's a mixup there-don't know if you could just switch hds and make xp /hda and then patch up lilo or grub, but i think then you might need a boot partition on /hda for the linux on /hdb and i don't know what else may need changes. hope this helps tho it's not much.