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Old 01-18-2008, 05:15 AM
Jason Zheng
 
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Default Re: Dual booting XP machine

Dave Uhring wrote:
> On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 10:43:02 -0700, Jason Zheng wrote:
>
>
>>I had the same situation as you, and I stupidly put the boot loader in
>>MBR. Now my windows xp partition cannot boot any more.
>>My configuration: 60GB HD, 30->WinXP, 30->SuSE9.1
>>
>>I tried using the windows xp rescue console to fix the boot sector, mbr,
>>and boot.ini, however the system still says operating system error when
>>boots.

>
>
> Fix your /etc/lilo.conf, then execute /sbin/lilo.
>
> [root]# cat /etc/lilo.conf
> append="hdc=ide-scsi"
> boot = /dev/sda
> message = /boot/boot_message.txt
> prompt
> timeout = 1200
> change-rules
> reset
> vga = normal
>
> image = /boot/vmlinuz
> root = /dev/sda5
> label = Linux
> read-only
>
> other = /dev/sda1
> label = Windows
> table = /dev/sda
>

I'm using grub, it correctly shows the windows boot option. The problem
is that when you choose to boot windows, windows complains operating error.
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