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    From Jacques Charroy@jcharroy@club-internet.fr to comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.windows.misc on Friday, July 18, 2003 11:38:44
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    hello,
    I use a suse 7.3 distribution and had installed lilo on the mbr during installation.
    But I couldn't get windows (95) to be booted first even by putting default=windows or default=hdc1
    in the lilo.conf file. So I used Yast1 to setup lilo once again and by
    error set it up on the boot sector of the root partition. Now windows is
    the default boot but it doesn't boot right: just after the lilo screen,
    I get this error message:
    I/O error
    replace it and hit a key
    which probably means that I got a boot sector problem.
    by using a windows boot disk, I'm able to access the windows disk,
    though.
    Does somebody know how I can get windows to boot once again?
    thanks a lot in advance,
    Jacques Charroy
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  • From philo@philo@plazaearth.com to comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.windows.misc on Friday, July 18, 2003 19:29:09
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    "Jacques Charroy" <jcharroy@club-internet.fr> wrote in message news:3F17C024.13583D69@club-internet.fr...
    hello,
    I use a suse 7.3 distribution and had installed lilo on the mbr during installation.
    But I couldn't get windows (95) to be booted first even by putting default=windows or default=hdc1
    in the lilo.conf file. So I used Yast1 to setup lilo once again and by
    error set it up on the boot sector of the root partition. Now windows is
    the default boot but it doesn't boot right: just after the lilo screen,
    I get this error message:
    I/O error
    replace it and hit a key
    which probably means that I got a boot sector problem.
    by using a windows boot disk, I'm able to access the windows disk,
    though.
    Does somebody know how I can get windows to boot once again?
    thanks a lot in advance,
    Jacques Charroy

    if the drive is your primary master,
    that would be hda1


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  • From Jennifer Mullen@jsm158+hacksaw@hacksaw.cac.psu.edu to comp.os.ms-windows.misc on Saturday, July 19, 2003 04:33:50
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.ms-windows.misc

    In <3F17C024.13583D69@club-internet.fr>
    Jacques Charroy <jcharroy@club-internet.fr> wrote:
    But I couldn't get windows (95) to be booted first even by putting default=windows or default=hdc1
    in the lilo.conf file.

    IIRC, DOS-based Windows must be on the first partition of the first hard
    drive in order to boot. You would need to have the hdd containing Windows
    be hda1, and install lilo to that drive.

    Try looking around the dual-boot documentation at http://linuxdocs.org.
    It's been a while since I've dual-booted Linux and Windows.



    J.
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  • From aschaer14@aschaer14@hotmail.com (Andrew Schaer) to comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.windows.misc on Saturday, July 19, 2003 05:08:58
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.ms-windows.misc

    Jacques Charroy <jcharroy@club-internet.fr> wrote in message news:<3F17C024.13583D69@club-internet.fr>...
    hello,
    I use a suse 7.3 distribution and had installed lilo on the mbr during installation.
    But I couldn't get windows (95) to be booted first even by putting default=windows or default=hdc1

    Simple: uninstall Linux and run a Windows operating system only. If
    you do this you'll keep Bill Gates a very happy man, and you won't
    have these problems.

    Jacques Charroy


    Regards,
    Andrew.


    aschaer@spinnakercapital.com
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  • From charroy jacques@jcharroy@club-internet.fr to comp.os.ms-windows.misc on Saturday, July 19, 2003 20:02:50
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    Jennifer Mullen wrote:

    In <3F17C024.13583D69@club-internet.fr>
    Jacques Charroy <jcharroy@club-internet.fr> wrote:

    But I couldn't get windows (95) to be booted first even by putting >>default=windows or default=hdc1
    in the lilo.conf file.


    IIRC, DOS-based Windows must be on the first partition of the first hard >drive in order to boot. You would need to have the hdd containing Windows
    be hda1, and install lilo to that drive.

    Try looking around the dual-boot documentation at http://linuxdocs.org.
    It's been a while since I've dual-booted Linux and Windows.



    J.

    thanks for your help, I used the fdisk function "make bootable" on the
    windows drive and now windows boots properly (I wonder why this was necessary). I also did fdidsk /mbr so now lilo isn't there anymore and I
    got problems booting linux....
    bye
    Jacques

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