Hi Kaustubh, > Debian Sarge installed grub as its boot loader in the MBR. > Now, Sarge and Slack worked, but Windows now would not boot. So I made the > entry in the lilo.conf file from Slack ( from which Windows was booting ) > for Sarge. Still no luck and I'm stumped. Can anyone suggest a way out of > this? You have mentioned debian installed 'grub' in mbr, and your have edited slack's lilo.conf.
One straight-forward solution to your problem is add entires for your Windows installations in your debian installation's grub.conf or menu.lst (Whichever of the 2 is the configuration file for grub. On my suse machine, it's /boot/grub/menu.lst). This should fix your problem. If you want to dig deeper, do the following: Where was your previous bootloader(lilo) installed? In MBR or in slack's partition? If in MBR, then it has already been overwritten by grub, so use the above procedure, unless you are keen on using lilo, in which case you'll have to install lilo in MBR using 'lilo' command after editing lilo.conf file (DON'T depend on my words for this, I've never used lilo, I know it only because I read it somewhere). If lilo was installed on slack's partition, then it's still there and your selecting slack's entry from grub (your new bootloader) should take you to lilo's prompt, from where you should be able to boot windows. But I doubt this is the case, because if it were, you couldn't have missed the lilo prompt after selecting slack from grub! ;-) Even then, if this is the case, you can still follow the 1st method, that is to use grub to boot windows (add an entry for windows, to grub). Else, install lilo! 8-D Now that's a boring and cryptic long mail for a (hopefully) short solution, but anyway, I hope it works for you! Cheers, Kapil -- "The Power to Imagine, is The Power to Create!" -TTux -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/mailing-list/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
