From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.redhat.com (mail.redhat.com [199.183.24.239]) by listman.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D83F2EFE4 for ; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 17:46:57 -0500 (EST) Received: (from mail@localhost) by mail.redhat.com (8.11.0/8.8.7) id eAAMkvA22314 for blinux-list@listman.redhat.com; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 17:46:57 -0500 Received: from mail.students.cs.uu.nl (vmailer@solar.students.cs.uu.nl [131.211.82.28]) by mail.redhat.com (8.11.0/8.8.7) with ESMTP id eAAMkuD22310 for ; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 17:46:57 -0500 Received: from abeel.students.cs.uu.nl (abeel.students.cs.uu.nl [131.211.82.40]) by mail.students.cs.uu.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D025485EF for ; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 23:46:55 +0100 (MET) Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 23:46:55 +0100 (MET) From: Andor Demarteau To: blinux-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: Urgent help needed! In-Reply-To: <000d01c04b3d$7a1d4240$e075f59b@essex.ac.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="-559023410-851401618-973896415=:29698" X-Loop: blinux-list@redhat.com Sender: blinux-list-admin@redhat.com Errors-To: blinux-list-admin@redhat.com X-BeenThere: blinux-list@redhat.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.0beta4 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: blinux-list@redhat.com List-Id: Linux for blind general discussion This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. Send mail to mime@docserver.cac.washington.edu for more info. ---559023410-851401618-973896415=:29698 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII ohe error you made, windoz always needs to be on partition 1, no exceptions at all! The dos-labeled lines is incorrect as well, have a look in the lilo-manpage there's a clear exampe near the bottom of it explaining exactly how to do this. I have attached my lilo.conf (yes I'm a poor sod still having windoz on hda1 I know). good luck! On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Saqib Shaikh wrote: > Hi all, I urgently need help to solve this problem regarding partitioning. I have written my own lilo.conf, which I have included at the end of this message, and then when I select windows from lilo get the error message: cannot find c:\windows\system\something.vxd, i cannot remember exactly. basically it is looking for the windows boot loader. i am using windows millennium incase this matters. my lilo.conf file is: > > boot=/dev/hda > root=/dev/hda3 > > image=/boot/boot.b > map=/boot/map > vga=normal > delay=50 > default=windows > image=/vmlinuz > label=linux > other=/dev/hda1 > label=dos > other=/dev/hda2 > label=windows > > slainte leat freisin (cheers to you also), ----------- Andor Demarteau E-mail: ademarte@students.cs.uu.nl student computer science www: http://www.students.cs.uu.nl/~ademarte/ Utrecht University note: homepage is outdated, don't remind me! ----------- Believe in yourself, know what you want, and make it happen! ---559023410-851401618-973896415=:29698 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; name="lilo.conf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: BASE64 Content-ID: Content-Description: Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="lilo.conf" Ym9vdD0vZGV2L2hkYTMNCnJvb3Q9L2Rldi9oZGEzDQppbnN0YWxsPS9ib290 L2Jvb3QuYg0KbWFwPS9ib290L21hcA0KdmdhPW5vcm1hbA0KZGVsYXk9MzMN CmltYWdlPS92bWxpbnV6DQoJbGFiZWw9TGludXgNCglyZWFkLW9ubHkNCm90 aGVyPS9kZXYvaGRhMQ0KICAgICAgICBsYWJlbD1kb3MNCiAgICAgICAgdGFi bGU9L2Rldi9oZGENCg== ---559023410-851401618-973896415=:29698--