Done that... it's the same it goes to XP
My guess is that XP isn't alowing to change MBR to LILO if i had /boot partition first than XP partition it would work just fine but because my instalation of XP was the first that is not the case can't i work out of this with LILO?

Lilo reported some error when you did the "re-run" from the command line?

It's working! with this configuration it worked... the first boot did not worked don't ask me why... but now it works fine
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Prompt
Timeout = 50
Default = WindowsXP
boot =/dev/hda
map =/boot/map
install =/boot/boot.b
message =/boot/message
Linear

Image =/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-14
Label = Linux
initrd =/boot/initrd-2.4.18-14.img
Read-only
Append ="hdc=ide-scsi root=LABEL=/ noauto nomce nousb"
Other =/dev/hda1
optional
LABEL= WindowsXP
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Now... the graphic boot does work... it ask's my login and pass then it goes to KDE/GNOME but crashes or stops in the intro... was this the problem you reported also? how can i solve this problem...
My guess is that the sound devices are not working and are messing with that intro... but can't be sure...

Yes, this is exactly the problem that I had. This is where my efforts with RH8.0 stopped. I don't have the experience to solve this problem. If anyone knows what to to do.... please help. Someone said that I should stop the service that monitors the files in the hard drive (I cannot remember its name), because he had the same crushes, but that didn't work for me.

I have now installed Mandrake 9.0, and it seems to work but with no sound yet. I didn't have the time to search more about it, but I think a very good link was given for this distribution above.

kzarog

it was sugested to me to use this command:

Linux noauto nomce nousb dumpredhat

i'm going to see if it work's ... first i'm compiling the kernel to see if something is missing... i'll report back

Any luck with getting into gnome or kde?

well no luck with RH 8.0 i compiled the kernel but no luck ... know i'v installed Mandrake 9.0 and it works fine ... here's some help about that...

presario 900 series

it has some nice info... but it's for mandrake in my laptop is working just great

Spooky OuT

I know what you mean. For some strange reason, Mandrake seems to work on the 900 series of the presario notebooks. I also have Mandrake now, but with no sound, no internet etc. But I guess it's a start. If anyone has any ideas about RH8 please let us know.