Im having trouble getting xp to load. right now i have lilo as the boot manager, when i choose xp nothing happens and goes back to the manager.

things i have done
used the xp disk to repair did
fixboot
fixmbr
reinstalled lilo
this is the fdisk -l
/sbin/fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 123.5 GB, 123522416640 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 239340 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 178325 89875611 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 178326 178528 102312 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 178529 237260 29600928 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 237261 239340 1048320 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 237261 239340 1048288+ 82 Linux swap

and lilo config file

boot="/dev/hda1"
prompt
timeout="50"
message=/boot/message
root=/dev/hda3
lba32

image="/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8"
label="2.4.20-8"
root="/dev/hda3"
read-only
initrd="/boot/initrd-2.4.20-8.img"

other=/dev/hda1
label="NT"

Thank you for your help.

Don't forget to run `/sbin/lilo` after editing lilo.conf

Alos run fixboot to get the Xp working. You installed the lilo to the Windows partition. That is why, when picking 'NT' and loading the Windows partition, the lilo was loaded again.

(duh, I should have seen that... more coffee!)

use grub...

i had da same prob but ain't figured it....but mine worked fine wid grub...so i dint bother

i agree dis is an escape to problem....but who cares when da job is done

thank you for your help so far, but I get the same results except for the lilo restarting even tried to use grub booth just sit there and do nothing. I forgot to metion that when installing linux i got a error message saying that the partion or mbr is not aligned correctly and i should make a linux boot disk. i even reinstalled windows over it self. Is there any way of saving my windows files? could I install another version of windows over linux would that be easier and then install linux back? any help is greatly appreciated thanks.

Describe the problem again. You boot, then... ? What did you change?

i had a similar problem , except i have two hard drives instead of one. what i did was that put the xp cd in the cd rom, right after i turn my machine, it asked if i wanted to boot from cd which i accepted. it then took me to xp set window. i chose the recovery section. once there, i was able to see both my drives and the partitions on each one. selected the drive with the problem and deleted the partition. that solved the problem. i dont know if this will help you, good luck

used the xp cd to fixmbr and fixboot
I mad the changes above to the lilo config file and did this command /sbin/lilo
I still no change
tried to change to grub and still no change
the only thing i have fixed is when selecting xp at the lilo boot screen it does not go back to lilo just says starting xp and that is it, same for grub boot gives me different info I think is was something like this
hda(0,0)
something chain +1

XP works after fixmbr/fixboot?
Post your lilo.conf

Thank You, for all of your help everyone I just ended up deleting both partions and re-installing both xp and redhat.
thanks again.