XP Installation / Dual Boot with SuSE 9.1 LILO
Hello everybody
starting with a functioning system (SuSE 9.1/ Win98) with 2 IDE Platten and one IDE DVD drive: /dev/hda1 /boot /dev/hda2 / /dev/hda3 /windows/D /dev/hdb /dvd /dev/hdd1 /windows/C /dev/hdd2 swap which uses LILO to boot both OSes (LILO config at the end) I tried to install XP over 98 as follows: - copied XP CD onto /windows/C/winxpcd. - booted Win98, in DOS Mode - executed c:\windows\smartdrv.exe - executed c:\winxpcd\i386\winnt.exe The installer went happily along, copying files to C:, creating the fllowing files: Feb 8 11:45 $ldr$ Feb 8 20:42 $win_nt$.~bt Feb 8 20:42 $win_nt$.~ls Feb 8 20:42 boot.ini Feb 8 11:43 bootfont.bin Feb 8 20:42 bootsect.dos Feb 8 11:45 ntdetect.com Feb 8 11:45 ntldr Feb 8 11:46 txtsetup.sif Feb 8 11:47 winxpcd Then the system has to be rebooted to continue the installation. However when selecting "windows" in the LILO menue the computer shows "Loading windows" and then it freezes. How can I teach LILO to boot into XP? What -----/etc/lilo.conf------------- append = "pci=biosirq enableapic vga=0x0317 hdb=ide-scsi max_scsi_luns=1" boot = /dev/hda compact lba32 vga = normal menu-scheme = Wg:kw:Wg:Wg read-only prompt timeout = 80 image = /boot/vmlinuz root = /dev/hda2 label = linux initrd = /boot/initrd append = " " image = /boot/memtest.bin label = memtest86 other = /dev/hdd1 label = windows map-drive=0x80 to=0x81 map-drive=0x81 to=0x80 table = /dev/hdd |
Then the system has to be rebooted to continue the installation.
However when selecting "windows" in the LILO menue the computer shows "Loading windows" and then it freezes. How can I teach LILO to boot into XP? Hang on... is this "booting windows" the start of the windows boot sequence or is it lilo acknowledging that the windows line was selected? If you see winXP start to boot than hang, then this is a windows problem. If you never leave LILO, then it is a LILO problem. Proceding as if it is lilo: Now - on LILO, I'm not used to SuSE, but I am used to seeing the windows bootloader chainloaded... however, I am thinking that the quoted lilo.conf worked OK for win98(?) |
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>Hang on... is this "booting windows" the start of the >windows boot sequence or is it lilo acknowledging that >the windows line was selected?
It is the standard message LILO shows "Loading XXXXX" where XXXXX is the menu entry name. > > If you see winXP start to boot than hang, then this Well I do not know. It freezes exactly at the interface >is a windows problem. > If you never leave LILO, then it is a LILO problem. See above. > Proceding as if it is lilo: > Now - on LILO, I'm not used to SuSE, but I am used to > seeing the windows bootloader chainloaded... however, > I am thinking that the quoted lilo.conf worked OK for > win98(?) Yes. Now, I thought GRUB might solve my problem. I backed up hdd to a working 98 config, configured GRUB (see menu.lst below) and as long as W98 was used everything worked like a charm. Installing XP the same way as described and rebooting resulted in exactly the same behaviour. So right now I am thinking that it is more likely to be a XP problem. Quite puzzled at the moment. I even installed an XP MBR on /dev/hdd and a boot sector on /dev/hdd1 which did not help (booting from XP CD and going into the repair console). ------------/boot/grub/menu.lst-------------------- # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Thu Feb 9 00:28:31 2006 timeout 4 default 0 ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux### title linux kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 initrd (hd0,0)/initrd ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux2### title linux2 kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 2 initrd (hd0,0)/initrd ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux1### title linux1 kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 1 initrd (hd0,0)/initrd ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: memtest86### title memtest86 kernel (hd0,0)/memtest.bin ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows### title windows root (hd1,0) map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) chainloader +1 makeactive ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows(floppy)### title windows(floppy) root (fd0) map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) chainloader +1 boot |
Have you had a look at this:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=411458 about message 12 there is a suggestion to do with menue.lst ... Quote:
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