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Hi,
i have Debian Woody 3.0 running along Windows 98 en
XP.
I had installed Win98 first, then woody. Now i
installed XP and XP
detected Win98, made a menu to boot XP and Win98
and then overwrote
the MBR which was expected.
No problem since i had made a boot disk in woody so
i went back into
linux, changed lilo.conf and ran lilo.
My system is as follows:
primary hd:
- 1 primary partition with Win98
(fat32)
- 1 extended partition that contains
- 1 extra partition
(fat32)
- 4 linux exf2
partition
secondary hd (on same id channel)
- 1 primary partition with WinXP (fat
32)
- 1 extended partition that contains
- 1 extra parition
(fat32)
- half of the space
of the hd is unassigned. this is needed to make
a test debian
linux in the near future :-)
I put these lines in my lilo.conf
other=/dev/hda1
label="Win98"
other=/dev/hdb1
label="WinXp"
I expected to be able to boot both win os's but it
didn't work. When i chose
WinXp it said that that partition wasn't bootable.
When i choose Win98,
and this is the weird thing, i got the dual boot
loader from WinXP that
showed a list of XP and Win98 that could be
booted.
I probably could have avoided it by hiding my Win98
disk so that XP wouldn't
touch the hda but install it's boot into hdb. ( is
there a free tool that allows
to hide a disk/parition)
Anyway not that bad really as i can still boot all
my os's and i couldn't care
less if XP disappears since it was a new
install.
Is there anyway i could solve this so i can all
boot them from nice 'labels' in
lilo? I wouldn't mind losing XP but i don't want to
lose Debian and Win98
Thanks for any
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