[oclug]Mandrake woes

[Shad Young]

tried both lilo and grub... lilo chokes on update if table set to hda, but 
updates of no setting is set fot table.. 

the others are set to 

label=win

root=/dev/hda6

it makes sense what you say... XP is on an extended partion (NTFS)... I think 
i'm toast.

Shad



On Thursday 17 October 2002 10:56 pm, Bob Lockie wrote:
> Shad Young wrote:
> >I decided to upgrade to Mandrake 9.0... No big deal... except, Lilo/Grub
> >refuse to boot XP anymore (I know... :)) yet mounts the volume fine.
> >
> >Linux is sitting on /dev/hda1, 5, 7 ... (first part of a 13.6 gig)
> >
> >mandrake has NT mounted on /dev/hda6 but says partiton not found when
> > setting lilo up.
>
> What is in your grub configuration file?
>
> Are you using lilo?
> I think grub is newer than lilo.
>
> Do a google search for "lilo and WinXP" or "grub and WinXP".
> Maybe someone here has
> "GRUB can chain to WinXP's boot code when WinXP is in a primary
> partition, but not when it's in a logical partition.".
> http://www.computing.net/linux/wwwboard/forum/15044.html
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/2002/debian-laptop-200203/msg00110.ht
>ml
>
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