I had a similar problem to this before and got around it, but now my new problem goes like this:

My brother has Windows on a SCSI drive, and now he has an IDE drive to put Slack in, I loaded Slack in the IDE for him and it runs fine, but I can't get LILO to create a label for Windows at startup.

i have

other = /dev/sda1
label = windows
table = /dev/sda

for the windows section, but when it starts up it only gives me an option to load in linux. Am I missing something? should I add that windows label somewhere else in the file as well?

did you type :
lilo
at the prompt to activate the changes, after you modifed the file ?!

hmm, no I haven't, should i do that in a console?

Thanks for the quick response

well that was definitely part of the problem, but it still doesn't add the label.

can you mount the windows partition??
just check wether it is identified or not

Can you post your entire lilo.conf? That might clarify things -- J.W.

We would need to know what your system is seeing the windows disk as. We might find that, if you try "dmesg | grep disk" . Alternately you might try running liloconfig in expert mode to have it the windows partition for you. It may be able to recognize the mount point for you.