trouble dual booting

[tlawren300]

I just tried to setup a dual booth with Slackware 13.1 and Win XP. I installed XP first on my second hard drive (sdb1) and then installed Slackware on the first hard drive (sda1). I chose to do things this way, because sda1 is the newer and larger drive, and I want to run Slackware as the primary OS. The installation apparently went fine, but now I can't boot into Windows. When LILO, it lists both Windows and Linux, but I can only get into Linux. When I select Windows I just get a black screen. Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong and how to fix it will be greatly appreciated!

I will say that I installed LILI in the MBR, so may have written over some Windows info there. Also, I tried to map the drives around in LILO using map-drive = 0x80 to 0x81 etc... but that doesn't fix the problem by itself. I do get an stating NTLDR missing... after mapping though, so it seems like it is doing something.

Thanks to anyone who responds in advance.

- tlawren300

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

Post the contents of /etc/lilo.conf file here.

[TrashOverride]

kind of same problem here
My comp is a bit old and it has only 2 sata slots - 1 for CD/DVD and 2 for HDD.
So i installed Slack with this config and after that i swaped the CD/DVD with my linux HDD, and on the second sata i put my old HDD (window$ 7). and now the only time i can boot into Win, i put my old HDD in BIOS to be the first to boot
here is my lilo.conf

# LILO configuration file                                                                                                                                                           
# generated by 'liloconfig'                                                                                                                                                         
#                                                                                                                                                                                   
# Start LILO global section                                                                                                                                                         
boot = /dev/sda                                                                                                                                                                     
#compact        # faster, but won't work on all systems.                                                                                                                            
# Boot BMP Image.                                                                                                                                                                   
# Bitmap in BMP format: 640x480x8                                                                                                                                                   
  bitmap = /boot/slack.bmp                                                                                                                                                          
# Menu colors (foreground, background, shadow, highlighted                                                                                                                          
# foreground, highlighted background, highlighted shadow):                                                                                                                          
  bmp-colors = 255,0,255,0,255,0                                                                                                                                                    
# Location of the option table: location x, location y, number of                                                                                                                   
# columns, lines per column (max 15), "spill" (this is how many                                                                                                                     
# entries must be in the first column before the next begins to                                                                                                                     
# be used.  We don't specify it here, as there's just one column.                                                                                                                   
  bmp-table = 60,6,1,16                                                                                                                                                             
# Timer location x, timer location y, foreground color,                                                                                                                             
# background color, shadow color.                                                                                                                                                   
  bmp-timer = 65,27,0,255
# Standard menu.
# Or, you can comment out the bitmap menu above and
# use a boot message with the standard menu:
#message = /boot/boot_message.txt

# Append any additional kernel parameters:
append=" vt.default_utf8=0"
prompt
timeout = 300
# VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x64k
vga = 791
# Normal VGA console
# vga = normal
# VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x64k
# vga=791
# VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x32k
# vga=790
# VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x256
# vga=773
# VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x64k
# vga=788
# VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x32k
# vga=787
# VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x256
# vga=771
# VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x64k
# vga=785
# VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x32k
# vga=784
# VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x256
# vga=769
# ramdisk = 0     # paranoia setting
# End LILO global section
# Linux bootable partition config begins
image = /boot/vmlinuz
  root = /dev/sda1
  label = Slackware
  read-only  # Partitions should be mounted read-only for checking
# Linux bootable partition config ends
# Windows bootable partition config begins
image = /dev/sdb
  root = /dev/sdb1
  label = Windows
  read-only # Partitions should be mounted read-only for checking

[icedtea]

# Windows bootable partition config begins
image = /dev/sdb
  root = /dev/sdb1
  label = Windows
  read-only # Partitions should be mounted read-only for checking

try :

other = /dev/sdb1
label = Windows
table = /dev/sdb

[TrashOverride]

# Windows bootable partition config begins
image = /dev/sdb
  root = /dev/sdb1
  label = Windows
  read-only # Partitions should be mounted read-only for checking

try :

other = /dev/sdb1
label = Windows
table = /dev/sdb

That worked.

10x