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Re: dual boot problem



on Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 02:31:30PM -0400, dman (dsh8290@rit.edu) wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 05:56:39PM +0000, Giri X wrote:
> | Hi
> | I recently installed Debian on a ayatem that had Win2k on it b4. I made 2 
> | partiotions using GNU Parted and put Debian on the second. But after the 
> | installation of Debian, I am not able to boot into Win2k. I checked 
> | /etc/lilo.conf. It had only 2 images, vmlinuz and old*.*(forgot the exact 
> | thing). There was no Windows image. So now i can boot only into Debian but 
> | now windows.
> | I ran fdisk from Linux and the partion table shows 3 partitions:
> | /dev/hda1  Win95 boot
> | /dev/hda2 linux
> | /dev/hda3 swap
> | 
> | what is the problem and the solution ??

/etc/lilo.conf:

    ! for legacy MS Windows installed on /dev/hda1:

    other = <windows mountpoint, e.g.:  /dev/hda1>
	table = <fstable, e.g.: /dev/hda>
	label = MSWindows

Cheers.

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