Dual boot issue

tntcoder · 08-06-2006, 12:00 PM

Hi,

I have installed Slackware on my 2nd hard drive (/dev/sdb1) with windows xp being on the first drive (/dev/sda1).

I installed lilo to the 2nd drives super block, now as expected the PC just boots directly to windows, however if i set the 2nd hard drive as the boot drive then lilo comes up but it just has the linux boot option on there.

Please can someone tell me what to add to lilo.conf in order to get the 1st windows hard drive to show as a boot option in the lilo menu.

Thanks for any help,
Jack

bigrigdriver · 08-06-2006, 01:24 PM

This might help:
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/l...-liloconf.html

tntcoder · 08-06-2006, 01:56 PM

thanks but if i add

other=/dev/sda1
label=windows

then it just crashes and does not boot

Any ideas?
Jack

Nylex · 08-06-2006, 02:49 PM

Try adding a "table=/dev/sda" line to your Windows stanza. Remember you'll need to run lilo after making changes to your lilo.conf.

tntcoder · 08-06-2006, 05:36 PM

thanks, even with the table line added, and running lilo, it still does not boot