Warning! Newbie post!

I have just installed Debian 3 onto a partition on a drive shared w/ WinXP (hda). As I am new to Linux I wanted to set LILO to boot to Windoze as default until I get my feet wet in Linux-land. I vi'd into lilo.conf and changed the default line to:

default=WinXP(hda1)

based on the lines I saw in lilo.conf that said:

other=/dev/hda1
label="WinXP(hda1)"

I then saved in vi and got out to the command line and ran lilo -v at the prompt to read the changes. Here is where I get my error:

LILO version 22.2 (yadda, yadda, yadda)
MAX_IMAGES = 27

Reading boot sector from /dev/hda
Merging with /boot/boot-menu.b
Fatal : read /dev/hda: No such file or directory

Any thoughts on where the error lies? I have tried a few more things on my own, but am at a loss. I did change the label in both from the default label LILO assigns of WinNT(hda1), but I assume that I could put almost anything in the label field, correct? Thanks for the help!

Can you post your whole lilo.conf file?

Certainly! This is copied by hand because I have yet to figure out how to export a nicely formatted version of it....

Lilo.conf: (commented lines removed)

lba32

boot=/dev/hda

root=/dev/hda5

install=/boot/boot-menu.b

map=/boot/map

delay=20

prompt
timeout=100

vga=normal

default=WinXp(hda1)

image=/vmlinuz
label=Linux
read-only

image=/vmlinuz.old
label=LinuxOLD
read-only
optional

other=/dev/hda1
label="WinXP(hda1)"

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Thanks for taking a look.

FYI, I have this same install on a tower PC and am not seeing this issue, however I am seeing it in the laptop this is installed on...a Dell C600. Don't know if that helps at all, but the change executed perfectly on the similar desktop install.

Thanks!

don't you need
table=/dev/hda
after the line other=/dev/hda1?