[wplug] Mandrake 10.0, LILO, and booting to Windows

Phil sublime78ska at comcast.net
Sun Jun 27 09:49:43 EDT 2004


On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 08:45, Russ Schneider wrote:
> I just installed Mandrake 10.0.  It's on hdb and my old Windows install is 
> on hda.
> 
> With each of my other Mandrake installs (8.2 and 9.1) LILO would have a 
> selection for Windows in the loader.  This is what was in /etc/lilo.conf 
> on my last install (9.1):
> 
> other=/dev/hda1
>         label="windows"
>         table=/dev/hda
> 
> However, this was not in lilo.conf in this install.  So I cut and pasted 
> it from my backup of my previous install and tried it.  When I selected 
> "windows" from the menu on boot, it gave me an "Invalid System Disk, Press 
> Any Key" error.
> 
> Any suggestions?

Try putting the install cd in, booting into rescue mode.  There are
options to redo the bootloader.  

Maybe that'll help.

Phil





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