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

[Jonathan Billings]

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.

I suggest checking what partition windows is on, it might be something 
other than hda1.  Also, you might want to uninstall the LILO bootloader 
to make sure that windows is booting properly, with lilo -u, or with the 
dos utility 'fdisk /mbr'.

Jonathan Billings