hi! > > As i can see that hda1 and hda5 are marked bootable -- this can possibly > > confuse windows. Try removing the bootable flag from hda5. Hope this > > helps. ~~~~~~~~~ > > Nope. So this is what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna reinstall the windows boot > loader and then reinstall grub. It's gonna take some time, after my exams. > I'll keep you posted.
hmmm, the usual case for me is when I have 2 windows installations and 1 or more linux installations on a harddisk, the linux bootloader (grub/lilo) has only one windows entry. Selecting this entry takes me to the windows bootloader, which is installed by XP(since in my case I've tried XP and 98 along with SuSE 9.0 & 9.2). Now this XP bootloader allows me to choose between XP and 98. Is it possible in your case that lilo is directing you to the wrong windows partition (the one without a bootloader), and so it's not booting?! Because I doubt grub/lilo will load windows itself, it'll merely transfer the control to windows bootloader. And if no bootloader is found on a partition, it'll probably just stay there. But then, one question to think over is from where is the message "Loading Windows" coming from? Is it lilo or is it the windows bootloader? If it's lilo then you can try changing the partition to which lilo is directing you when you select windows. Otherwise windows bootloader has probably gotten corrupt! You can try to boot to windows using a bootable CD and select repair mode. I remember seeing some commands available with windows command prompt that reinstall bootloader. But I didn't know much about it and when I tried to re-install the windows bootloader, I ended up having a bootloader in MBR with only 1 entry, that of XP and nothing for 98! :-O And ofcourse, it erased grub from MBR. So I installed grub on my linux partition, made that partition, and left MBR untouched. Then I had the following sequence: PC power on->grub on active(boot) partition->linux boots if selected, else PC power on->grub on active(boot) partition->windows bootloader(i guess this was in the MBR)->windows boots when selected. Well this is my inference from my observations. I haven't verified if I've understood things correctly. Kindly correct me if I'm getting anything wrong. Regards, 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.
