Problem with a dual-boot system
Ok, I used Partition Magic to add a 20-gig partition to my C drive for Mandrake. Mandrake installed fine, and boots fine... but when I try to boot XP, I get a message that xmnt2002 has failed or something, and that autocheck won't run... then the system restarts. I can't get into Windows at all, and I'd kind of like to. I can access that partition through Mandrake, so if I need to remove files or something I could probably do that. Help?
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Maybe the problem is lilo.
Take a look at the lilo.conf file. You can find it in /etc. In that file you should look for this: # Windows bootable partition config begins other = /dev/hdb1 label = Windows # map-drive = 0x80 # to = 0x81 # map-drive = 0x81 # to = 0x80 table = /dev/hdb # Windows bootable partition config ends Maybe the problem is that the wrong partition is used. Then you have to edit "other = /dev/hdb1" (or something like that), into the partition windows is using. |
Ok, here's what I have for the Windows partitions:
other=/dev/hda1 label="windows" table=/dev/hda other=/dev/hdb1 label="windows2" table=/dev/hdb map-drive=0x80 to=0x81 map-drive=0x81 to=0x80 other=/dev/hdd1 label="windows3" table=/dev/hdd map-drive=0x80 to=0x82 map-drive=0x82 to=0x80 hda1 is where XP is installed. The other two are other hard drives. What do I have to do to get hda1 working again? |
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