Dual Boot, Lilo Windows / Red Hat
 

Hello!!!
Ive just installed Red Hat 7.3 on my harddrive # 2, but after the installation, i couldn't boot my Windows 2k anymore.
I started using grub, but the I read that if I wanted to boot Windows I had to use Lilo, så I reinstalled the entire Linux og used Lilo instead.
I updated Red Hat, online so now i can chose between three in the lilo bootmenu.
the lilo.conf file looks like this:

prompt
timeout=50
default=linux
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
message=/boot/message
linear

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-5
label=linux
root=/dev/hdb5
append="hdd=ide-scsi"
read-only
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18-5.img

other=/dev/hda5
optional
label=Windows2000
table=/dev/hdb
map-drive = 0x80
to = 0x81
map-drive = 0x81
to = 0x80

but it does'nt work!!!! Windows is installed on my seagate harddrive, wich is P-Master, og Linux on my second harddrive, wich is S-Master.!!!

My question is: "How do I remove on of the three options in the bootmenu? And how do i get Windows to boot.?"

Best Regards
Kasper Brandenburg. Denmark:newbie:

Change this section of lilo.conf:

other=/dev/hda5
optional
label=Windows2000
table=/dev/hdb
map-drive = 0x80
to = 0x81
map-drive = 0x81
to = 0x80

To this:

other=/dev/hda5
optional
label=Windows2000
table=/dev/hda

After making these changes run /sbin/lilo

How do I run /sbin/lilo, just type it in the terminal or what?

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Yes, type it into a terminal. Remember that you need to be root to edit the file and run /sbin/lilo.

Hello Again
I still have problems, when i type "/sbin/lilo" in the terminal, the following message appears:

added linux *
Fatal: Partition entry not found

It appears that /dev/hda5 is not your windows2000 partition. It could be /dev/hda1. Change the other=/dev/hda5 to other=/dev/hda1. Then run /sbin/lilo. Any time you make changes, run /sbin/lilo.

he he, you are right, and wrong, I changed the line you "talked" about, new error:
fatal: First sector of /dev/hda1 doesn't have a valid boot signature

can i take a screendump in linux, and how - because i found a hardware browser, wich tells my the names of my partitions, I could show it to you

Run fdisk -l /dev/hda and post a copy of it's output so I can see if I can figure out where windows2000 is on /dev/hda.

I don't know how to take a screendump, so here it is:

Unit: boot Start Bloks id system
/dev/hda1 * 1 b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda2 575 f Win95 Enhanced (LBA)
/dev/hda5 575 b Win95 FAT32

It looks like hda1 is the windows2000 partition. Try removing this line from /etc/lilo.conf: table=/dev/hda. Then run /sbin/lilo.

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Hi again
I've tried som different stuff, and when I used this configuration:

prompt
timeout=50
default=linux
boot=/dev/hda1
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
message=/boot/message
linear
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-5
label=linux
root=/dev/hdb5
append="hdd=ide-scsi"
read-only
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18-5.img
other=/dev/hda2
optional
label=Windows2000
table=/dev/hda

and wrote /sbin/lilo ind the terminal, it replied:

added: linux *
added: windows2000

but i still doesn't work :o( I tried.

it still dosn't work, I tried what you surgested, but - no luck yet.
how about this:

map-drive = 0x80
to = 0x81
map-drive = 0x81
to = 0x80

I read on redhat.com that in order to boot windows, we needed to trick windows into thinking that IT was in control of the MBR

I believe hda2 is an extended partition and not windows2000.

This line: boot=/dev/hda1 should have been left as boot=/dev/hda. Changing it to hda1 caused lilo to install itself in the boot sector of hda1 instead of the mbr of hda.

If you have windows2000 install disk, I think you can repair the boot sector of hda1, but I'm not real sure about that.