Ok I've used slackware and lilo for a few years now, never bothered with windows didn't like it which is why I moved to linux, at that time I had used xp. For a few reasons I've decided I need to dual boot, when and put vista on, got lilo workin with it no problem and found I hated vista more then I ever hated xp, and put xp on instead of vista.
Problem is I can't get xp to boot, just get 'loading xp' after selecting xp (as I have xp as it's name in the menu) and it stays that way.
Here's my lilo config(btw I have xp on a second drive which is the slave my slack install is on the primary drive):
Code:
# LILO configuration file
# generated by 'liloconfig'
#
# Start LILO global section
# Append any additional kernel parameters:
append=" vt.default_utf8=0"
boot="/dev/hda"
# Boot BMP Image.
# Bitmap in BMP format: 640x480x8
bitmap = /boot/lilo-boot-alien.bmp
# Menu colors (foreground, background, shadow, highlighted
# foreground, highlighted background, highlighted shadow):
bmp-colors = 6,,0;15,,0
# Location of the option table: location x, location y, number of
# columns, lines per column (max 15), "spill" (this is how many
# entries must be in the first column before the next begins to
# be used. We don't specify it here, as there's just one column.
bmp-table=65,5,1,23,
# Timer location x, timer location y, foreground color,
# background color, shadow color.
bmp-timer = 65,3;7,0
# Standard menu.
# Or, you can comment out the bitmap menu above and
# use a boot message with the standard menu:
#message = /boot/boot_message.txt
# Wait until the timeout to boot (if commented out, boot the
# first entry immediately):
prompt
# Timeout before the first entry boots.
# This is given in tenths of a second, so 600 for every minute:
timeout="1200"
# Override dangerous defaults that rewrite the partition table:
change-rules
reset
# VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x256
vga="773"
# Normal VGA console
# vga = normal
# VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x64k
# vga=791
# VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x32k
# vga=790
# VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x256
# vga=773
# VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x64k
# vga=788
# VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x32k
# vga=787
# VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x256
# vga=771
# VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x64k
# vga=785
# VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x32k
# vga=784
# VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x256
# vga=769
# End LILO global section
# Linux bootable partition config begins
image="/boot/vmlinuz"
root="/dev/hda1"
label="Linux"
read-only
# Linux bootable partition config ends
# Windows bootable partition config begins
other=/dev/hdb1
label="XP"
# Windows bootable partition config ends
