dual boot

[harishbayyavarapu]

i installed xp first.and then installed mandrake linux 10.1.at the boot screen i get only linux,linux-nonfb,failsafe .how can i login 2 windows xp.plz help me

my linux is downloaded one.during the bootloader installation i selected the first sector of MBR.plz help me as many as possible

[bryansmith]

Could you please post the contents of the file /etc/lilo.conf?

Bryan

[harishbayyavarapu]

default="linux"
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
keytable=/boot/us.klt
prompt
nowarn
timeout=100
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="linux"
root=/dev/hda1
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="acpi=ht resume=/dev/hda3 splash=silent"
vga=788
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="linux-nonfb"
root=/dev/hda1
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
"lilo.conf" [readonly] 31L, 644C 1,1 Top

this is the one wich is in the lilo.conf
plz tell how 2 boot into the xp

[twoHats]

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plz tell how 2 boot into the xp

Hi - well if WinXP is still there it won't be too hard to boot to it - so step one is to see if it is still there...


I am going to take a wild stab and assume you are running KDE (?)

Try to find a program called KDiskFree - under the K Menu - under System.

This will show your partitions in a safe way.

If you are not useing KDE get a root terminal and type

# /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/hda

Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1             1      1530  12289693+  83  Linux
/dev/hda2          1531      2965  11526637+  83  Linux
/dev/hda3          2966      3209   1953125+  82  Linux swap
/dev/hda4          3209      9730  52381256    5  Extended
/dev/hda5   *      3209      4080   7003080+  83  Linux
/dev/hda6          4342      9729  43279078+  83  Linux
/dev/hda7          4081      4341   2096451   83  Linux

don't forget to replace /dev/hda with your particular drive ...

post that info to give us a clue - also do you have more than one HD? Is the windows partition on the same drive as the Linux partition?

We will fix this if winXP is still there.