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Re: LILO and Win XP



It does, but my scsi device isn't the normal boot disk so I can't use the nt bootloader.  
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 08:50:36AM -0600, Danny Sauer wrote:
> Does XP use a boot method similar to NT, where maybe the lilo+winNT
> howto would be a help?  I don't know, but it's something to consider...
> 
> --Danny, stabbing in the dark
> 
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 11:57:06PM -0600, Benjamin Story wrote:
> > I recently acquired a new SCSI HDD so I decided that I'd install Win XP on it so that I could run my games and my CCNA Lab software.  To accomplish the install, I had to disable my ide chain because XP insisted on putting files on the master ide drive.  Now with the ide chain reenabled I figured that the following block
> > 
> > other = /dev/sda1
> > 	label = winxp
> > 	table = /dev/sda
> > 	optional
> > 
> > would allow me to boot XP.  Instead I get 2 lines of gibberish to the screen and have to reboot.  Is there something I missed?
> 
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