I'm trying to setup my Windows XP Pro box to dual-boot into Debian
Linux using Lilo.
I used a stray 10GB partition and put Debian on it. Then I installed
Lilo, pointing it at the appropriate partitions. It boots Debian fine,
but not XP - on selection Lilo says "loading XP" then it hangs.
Using partition magic, I looked at the drive, and seemed to have some
stray FAT32 partitions (2 at 8MB each) which I think were left over
from an old 98 install. I read in a Usenet post that these may be
being used to boot XP and this confuses Lilo so I tried removing them
and assimilating the space. This didn't work, because I had a bad id
on a file somewhere, and so these one of these duff empty partitions
have to hang around.
At this stage I was a little worried that I hadn't seen my XP
installation in a while, so I used another XP machine to make a boot
disk (why don't MS tell you how to do this? I found a random website
and then had to fight with explorer to get it to show me the files you
need). This worked OK, but I needed the boot disk to boot into
Windows. I tried resetting the MBR using the Recovery tool and fixmbr,
but that didn't work.
So the current state of my system is that it has a Lilo install which
boots Debian fine, but hangs when it boots XP and an XP install I can
only boot with a floppy. I also still have this weird 8MB partition on
the front of my drive I can't do anything with. What I want is a
system which uses Lilo to boot Debian and XP.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Peter
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