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Re: where can i get partition magic and....

 
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shawn barnett
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Re: where can i get partition magic and....

stuart check out my other post about winxp and RH7 for the LiLo info and partition info
Stuart Browne
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Re: where can i get partition magic and....

Backup your existing lilo.conf, and try this:


boot=/dev/hda
timeout=100
message=/boot/message
prompt
image=/vmlinuz-2.2.16-22
label=Linux
root=/dev/hdb3
other=/dev/hda3
label=WinXP

re-run /sbin/lilo, and see what happens.
One long-haired git at your service...
shawn barnett
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Re: where can i get partition magic and....

ok i typed it exactly and it just kept trying to load linux over and over again i changed it on the disk btw any other ideas?
Stuart Browne
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Re: where can i get partition magic and....

Ok..

When you typed '/sbin/lilo', it showed both "Linux*" and "WinXP" yes?

When you were booting, you selected 'WinXP', then what happened? If it then started loading Linux regardless, then you should try the following:

Change 'other=/dev/hda3' to read 'other=/dev/hda2', and then re-run '/sbin/lilo'. Reboot, select 'WinXP'.
One long-haired git at your service...
shawn barnett
Advisor

Re: where can i get partition magic and....

in the sbin directory there is no LiLo and it had no image of winxp either to select any ideas stuart
Stuart Browne
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Re: where can i get partition magic and....

Ok.. when in Linux, what does 'lilo' on it's own say?
One long-haired git at your service...
shawn barnett
Advisor

Re: where can i get partition magic and....

i don't understand what you are asking do you mean a file extension or ???
Stuart Browne
Honored Contributor

Re: where can i get partition magic and....

Ok.

You are using Lilo as your boot loader.

When you modify /etc/lilo.conf, it doesn't do anything apart from modify a file.

You need to issue the command 'lilo' to write the changes to the hard-disk drive in order for them to take effect.

If /sbin/lilo doesn't exist in Linux (very odd for a lilo driven machine), then I would hope that it is somewhere else within your environment path. Issuing the command "lilo" (stripping the quotes obviously) should show you at least something, even if it is an error.

Do this. Tell us what output happens.

From your description thus far, it appears as if you've never successfully executed this command, otherwise 'WinXP' would be showing up as one of the boot loader's options.
One long-haired git at your service...
shawn barnett
Advisor

Re: where can i get partition magic and....

now i have a question that same lilo you had me retype should i have that in the /etc on the boot disk and hard drive? or just the boot disk?
Stuart Browne
Honored Contributor

Re: where can i get partition magic and....

harddisk. always hard-disk.

ok.. didn't realise you were showing us a lilo.conf from the floppy..

'chroot' is your friend ;) but that's a post for a different day..
One long-haired git at your service...