Re: LILO won't load win95, but no error...??
This is a guess based on your description of what happens. It almost
sounds like you may have, at one point, had this line in your lilo.conf
file...
boot=/dev/hda1
....and the rest of the file was the same as it is now.
That would have installed lilo in the boot sector of /dev/hda1, and it
may still be there, even though you have since installed Lilo in the MBR
(/dev/hda). So when you choose win95, it turns things over to the Lilo
boot sector in /dev/hda1 which then gives you the same menu.
Linux would still boot normally in that case, but choosing win95 would
keep looping you back to the same boot sector in /dev/hda1, and give you
the menu again.
Have you tried booting from a Win95 floppy disk and see if you can
access that partition from a DOS prompt? Because if what I'm suggesting
did happen, your Win95 boot record is overwritten with Lilo, and you
won't be able to access your C drive.
Actually, I hope I'm wrong for your sake.
Tom
Martin Waller wrote:
>
> Help me!
>
> I have win95 on /dev/hda1 with extended partition /dev/hda2 <hda5>.
> Debian on /dev/hdb1, /dev/hdc1=swap, /dev/hdc2=/usr/local.
>
> lilo.conf=
>
> boot=/dev/hda
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> read-only
> prompt
> timeout=100
> vga=normal
> image=/vmlinuz
> root=/dev/hdb1
> label=linux
> other=/dev/hda1
> label=win95
> table=/dev/hda
>
> Typing win95 at LILO prompt, it syas 'Loading win95' then goes right back to
> lilo prompt, no error messages.
> The linux section works OK.
>
> What's the problem? (slink).
>
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