Just installed knoppix to the hard drive, and I really like the look of lilo. But for some reason, it won't boot into windows?

I type lilo at the command line and it gives me this error:

"/dev/hdb1" doesn't contain a primary partition table at or above line 159 in file '/etc/lilo.conf'

What does that mean?

I modified /etc/lilo.conf to looks like this for windows:

other=/dev/hdb1
label="WinXP/2K(hdb1)"
table=/dev/hdb1

I added the table line because I'm pretty sure it should be there, and it doesn't work otherwise.

Any ideas?

-THANKS

Also, when I choose windows without the table line in lilo.conf, the loader gives me this error:

Loading WinXP/2K(hdb1)
Error 0x07
boot: WinXP/XK(hdb1)


?????

try table=/dev/hdb instead of /dev/hdb1

Just tried it. I get the same error on boot unfortunately

Did you install Windows to the primary slave? How did you boot it before the Knoppix install.

yes. Well actually, it was the master originally, but I chose to make it slave because it had a defective MBR which wouldn't accept lilo. This was yesterday. Knoppix is now installed on the master drive

But just now I added the primary slave under the bios (duh, lol,) and it STILL doesn't work. Now it just hangs at 'Loading WindowsXP', though the error is gone so I guess thats a good sign.

I've tried both with the 'table' entry and without. Any ideas as to how I could get windows to load?

-Thanks a bunch

You will want to check "man lilo.conf" for the map-drive function.

Something like:
other=/dev/hdb1
label="WinXP"
table=/dev/hdb
map-drive=0x80
to=0x81
map-drive=0x81
to=0x80

Rerun "/sbin/lilo" as root, of course.

THANKYOU!!

I put those exact lines in and it worked.

Just out of curiosity, are there any dangers associated with using those parameters, ie- does it affect how windows runs the whole time, or just how it starts up?

The map-drive option tells Windows that the Primary Slave is the Primary Master and Vise Verse.
When I used this with an XP preview version my only concern was making sure Windows did not automatically try to scan, fix or defrag my Linux partitions.
The map-drive option worked fine the whole 6 months I had it running.

You should notice that Windows thinks it is on C:

sweet, thanks for that