[SATLUG] Problems dualbooting XP and SUSE

[Albert Lochli]

In an install that I did we exited with this problem:
   You could boot into Linux
   You could NOT boot into windows (it was ME not XP although I had seen
similar in XP)
   
1. Open Linux as root.
2. Hopefully in command line -- else use XTerminal.
3. Run fdisk /dev/hda
   when it comes up check and note which partition hda1, hda2, hda3 is
what.
   make NO alterations -- this is a LOOK-SEE only.
3. cat /etc/lilo.conf
    look and see where it is trying to reach DOS or windows at 
    -- we had windows in hda1 and lilo had it in hda5
4. If necessary edit the lilo.conf file -- command line vi
/etc/lilo.conf
    save and exit vi { wq }
5  from the command line call /sbin/lilo
   this will rewrite the lilo in the mbr et al
   if an error remains it will tell you so  (an * or an absence of one I
forget which but it is unmistakable)
6. then exit linux and retry linux and windows for access et al.

7.  We did have one that I worked on where this did not work 
-- it had been originally grub and the boot header on the XP this time
was corrupted.

BiigAl

john shanks wrote:
> 
> I was at the SAC Installfest today, and I ended up putting SUSE 9 in
> dualboot with XP using LILO.  Unfortunately, when I try to boot into
> XP it hangs on the "Starting Windows" line and nothing happens after
> that.  I know that there were similar problems with a lot of the
> RedHat and Fedora installs you guys were doing and you found what the
> problem was, but I had to leave at 12.
> 
> Can you tell me what the fix was, and if its something I could do?
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