hey i am fairly new to the linux community. i am running RH7.2 and winxp. right now i have my rh drive as master and the xp as slave. well i want to be able to dual boot the 2. i have edited
lilo.cfg, restarted lilo, and rebooted. well the menus gives me 2 choices. one is linux and the other winxp. the linux boot one works perfectly fine. when i go and select teh winxp one it says
starting winxp...and then nothing happens. the activity light on my pc is a constant orange. so it seems the pc is working. but nothing happens. my questions is, am i doing something wrong?
or do i need to install something on winxp to get it to boot? what about if i have winxp as master and rh7.2 as slave? ideas, suggestions woul dbe majoly appreciated, it will make my life of
opening the box and switching hd's much less hecktic =)
thank you

WinXP does some strange disk partitioning, it is possible that the partition you have in lilo as being xp is something else, did you rearrange the drives after installing xp?

if so put them back like they were and go from there, the nt boot loader should still be intact on the other drive. Once xp is up look in the drive manager and see how it has it's partitions arranged so you know where to point lilo.

the problem is if you change the drives lilo will not be installed anymore on the right drive.

if you look at the partitions in linux fdisk you should be able to tell the ones that are xps.

if not,

boot xp and see if things are the way you have them in lilo.conf on the xp drive, then swap them back and make the proper changes.

double post.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...&threadid=9646

i went ahead and closed this thread due to the double post, you can reply with answers for this questions at http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...&threadid=9646