[ale] Dual Boot failure

[jkinney at localnetsolutions.com (James P. Kinney III)]

On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 08:53, David Corbin wrote:
> I'm using LILO to try an dual boot my system. My lilo.conf has
> 
> other=/dev/hdb2
> 	label=WindowsXP
> 
> but selecting Windows gets me an "error loading operating system" from 
> LILO.  I've got the same setup working on my laptop (except it's hda2 
> there, because there is only the one hard drive.) and it works fine.
> 
> Any ideas?

Is windows OK with booting from the secondary drive? It has been quite
stupid in the past. In XP there is the bootup configuration that tells
it what drive to use. If you just reconfiged the drive to hdb and
windows was installed on it as hda, you will need to edit boot.ini.
> 
> David
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