weird but working triple boot with lilo on Woody

[Benedict Verheyen]

Hi,   i have Debian Woody 3.0 running along Windows 98 en XP. I had installed Win98 first, then woody. Now i installed XP and XP detected Win98, made a menu to boot XP and Win98 and then overwrote the MBR which was expected. No problem since i had made a boot disk in woody so i went back into linux, changed lilo.conf and ran lilo. My system is as follows: primary hd: - 1 primary partition with Win98 (fat32) - 1 extended partition that contains      - 1 extra partition (fat32)      - 4 linux exf2 partition   secondary hd (on same id channel) - 1 primary partition with WinXP (fat 32) - 1 extended partition that contains      - 1 extra parition (fat32)      - half of the space of the hd is unassigned. this is needed to make        a test debian linux in the near future :-)   I put these lines in my lilo.conf other=/dev/hda1 label="Win98" other=/dev/hdb1 label="WinXp"   I expected to be able to boot both win os's but it didn't work. When i chose WinXp it said that that partition wasn't bootable. When i choose Win98, and this is the weird thing, i got the dual boot loader from WinXP that showed a list of XP and Win98 that could be booted. I probably could have avoided it by hiding my Win98 disk so that XP wouldn't touch the hda but install it's boot into hdb. ( is there a free tool that allows to hide a disk/parition)   Anyway not that bad really as i can still boot all my os's and i couldn't care less if XP disappears since it was a new install. Is there anyway i could solve this so i can all boot them from nice 'labels' in lilo? I wouldn't mind losing XP but i don't want to lose Debian and Win98   Thanks for any advice