I have since found out you are to run LILO in a terminal so it can send the information in the config file to the MBR. However, this still isn't solving my problem of booting windows. When I select windows in LILO, it says "Loading Windows" and stops there with a blinking cursor. Maybe that hard drive has an MBR on it that's spoofing things up? Maybe whatever needs to be read on the Windows drive is on a sector too far out for the BIOS to read? Again, any help's appreciated, and worth a beer. :) -Nick -Nick > Florin, > > I'm sorry I couldn't "follow your advice" on not booting Windows...someday, I'll get there :) > > I am now able to mount my windows drive (after realizing I should be calling it hdb1 instead of hdb, even though I didn't remember having a partition on that drive) > > Now I am trying to modify lilo.conf, but no matter what I do with the file, it doesn't change LILO. What gives? I even got bold enough to reboot my computer with lilo.conf as a blank file. I'm pretty sure the reason is that Red Hat 7 is using that cute but worthless graphical "LILO" interface as opposed to the prompt-based LILO. > > Any help's appreciated, and worth a beer when I make a beer meeting. And it's worth a beer and a HALF to help me get rid of the GUI RedhatLILO, and back to the real-deal LILO. (I dare not mention my age right now, or that offer will fall right through the floor) > > -Nick > > > On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 09:24:30PM -0400, AIRPLANEIT at aol.com wrote: > > > I am pleased to announce that this is my first e-mail sent through the Linux operating system (Redhat 7). After a week of "small problems" and a lot of perseverence (sp?), I am now able to connect with my cable modem and Netscape (web based e-mail). > > > > We are pleased to hear that! Welcome! > > > > > The challenges I overcame (probably seem miniscule to many of you) were: > > > > Indeed. We were born with osciloscopes in hands... > > > > > Manually partitioning the Linux Drive. > > > An out of sync monitor. > > > configuring the monitor settings to anything other than 8 bit color and 640x480. > > > Finding out how to setup my network card. > > > > > > Looking back, I don't see why it seemed so hard. Ahh well... > > > > Isn't that the most important reason to love it? > > > > > I'm sure I'm going to hit a few more roadblocks before feeling comfortable with wiping my system clean of Win98 (my eventual goal). > > > > > > My next challenge is getting Windows to boot through LILO, and (probably at the same time) getting Linux to mount my Windows harddrive. Wish me luck! > > > > Don't bother :) > > > > If you cannot follow the previous advice: > > 1. add the following two lines to /etc/lilo.conf > > other=/dev/<windows boot partition aka C:> > > label=winblows > > > > 2. add the following line to /etc/fstab > > /dev/<windows partition> /mnt/<mountpoint> vfat defaults 0 0 > > repeat as necessary > > > > florin > > > > PS. I hope I have not spoiled your fun :) > > > > -- > > > > "If it's not broken, let's fix it till it is." > > > > 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4