Re: LILO and Win XP

[Danny Sauer <sauer@cloudmaster.com>]

Someone posts at
http://www.linux.com/howto/mini/Linux+NT-Loader.html
that XP hides an NTFS partition?  I don't recall anything about
having both OSs on the same disk, but back when I was using NT
(shudder), mine were - so I'm no help there.

After another moment with google (your friend and mine), it
appears that our poor-grammar companions from over the ocean
have some help for you:
	http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/dstark_linux_xp.html

You may look into
	http://www.vmware.com/
as well - it'll be easier than rebooting... :)

--Danny

On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 01:12:42PM -0600, Benjamin Story wrote:
> 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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