Dual-Boot Working-ish
 

Hi,

I've had this problem before but not always.

I have Windows 2000 installed on my laptop and it's dual-booting with slack 10.0 right now. It's working-ish, except that it hangs when booting windows 2000 whenever linux was last used. So after having used linux Windows will not boot, but after I turn off the laptop and turn it back on again it will boot just fine.

I was hoping someone had this problem before and knows how to fix it. It's probably something with the way Linux shuts down, but that's just a guess.

Any help would be appreciated.

Hi,
I had the same problem on an old Dell laptop. Never did find a workaround. It doens't seem to be dangerous. You might try using GRUB instead of LILO, donno--just a guess.

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Taj

I agree with tmorton...I also had that problem a while back and when i upgraded to Grub everything seemed to work better

I don't have you hardware, and you didn't say where it hangs, so:

- try disabling "PnP OS" in bios.
- make sure COM ports are not AUTO, but have IRQ's etc hand assigned.

By the way, I've noticed that other distros do not cause this problem. Mandrake didn't have this problem (which also uses LILO). RH didn't have a problem, RH uses GRUB.

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Taj