Dual Boot done, bootloader problem

[danbo]

i have done the following:

made 3 2GB Non DOS partitions, which i did the following to:

installed "/" directory of linux on one
installed "/boot" directory of linux onto another
and installed "/home" directory of linux on the other

then

Made one FAT32 12GB partition which i installed windows 2000 onto, i set the partition with LILO on it to the active partition so that the boot loader would execute upon startup, but:

when i boot my computer it says "error loading operating system"#

i thought i could use the FAT32 partition and place a boot loader on that and boot using that partition then, i hear it can be done with "boot.ini", how and are there any other methods ?

THANKZ

[Dolda2000]

/boot does absolutely not need to 2GB! It doesn't even need to be 100 MB. That's an utter waste of space.

Anyway, I don't really understand this concept of an "active" partition that you're using... Exactly where did you install LILO?

[danbo]

yeh i know now, i have allocated 94mb to it now, this post

NEEDS NO MORE REPLIES....... i think i've done it

[therock]

why dont u install windows first , then install Red Hat,.
After that when u u get into the red hat, copy file in the /boot . Then put it in the C:\...Also add a boot record in boot.ini file.

[Dolda2000]

therock: What are you talking about?!

[Dolda2000]

After closer examination, I guess you're referring to dual-booting using the windows boot loader, is that right? If so, why ever would you want to do that instead of using GRUB? GRUB is better in every possible way.

[danbo]

yes i am using grub now, its good.... but how do i configurate it ?

[Dolda2000]

Well, I can't really go through everything about configuring grub here. But don't worry, if you run "info grub" you'll get all the info you'll ever need.