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272287 2004-09-14 11:29:00 >image="/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22"

Get rid of the speechmarks in this section. Although, this shouldn't be affecting Win2K's booting ...
Jen C (20)
272288 2004-09-14 11:46:00 rompt
timeout=60
default=YOS
vga=791
boot=/dev/hdb

I think you have got hold of that section from my old Mepis lilo.conf when I was stitching it together, the above in Yoper's points to the boot partition which is the same partition that Mepis used and as listed by you. But maybe I have to put the old Mepis windows lines into Ypers lilo.conf for it to work rather than the fairly basic one that Yoper uses (in bold plumb below).

The quotation (speach) marks are exactly as Mepis used it and are a direct copy, I'll see what happens san them and the (.) at the front of the line, but maybe I should try one thing at a time, eh?

lba32

bitmap = /boot/yoper_boot.bmp
bmp-colors = 1,,0,2,,0
bmp-table = 120p,173p,1,15,17
bmp-timer = 254p,432p,1,0,0


image=/boot/yos
label=YOS
read-only
root=/dev/hdd9
append = "splash=silent "
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.8.1-3.img

> other=/dev/hda1
> label=Windows

image="/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22"
vga=791
label="mepis"
append="nomce hdc=ide-scsi"
root="/dev/hdd6"

Cheers Murray P
Murray P (44)
272289 2004-09-14 12:55:00 Try this, it should help. Download NTLDR. There is no file extention. I have put it up for you here (www.jgih.com).

Put this file in the root of your drive, or whatever drive it tries to load windows off.

Try again and tell us what happens.

Cheers George
george12 (7)
272290 2004-09-14 13:33:00 Thanks for your offer George, I got a 404 page not found although the rest of the site loads ok .

I do have an NTLDR file in my root directory, it's just that it's not being referenced properly and I can't figure out why . I've got rid of Mepis from the /boot and put lilo . conf back to how it was with just Yoper and windows listed but now it seems like I have a major rebuild on my hands once again . Oh well, such is life when you want to fiddle, looks like one of these OS's has to go .

I'm just a bit perplexed that a decent boot loader hasn't been incorporated into Linux yet, might have to go for a 3rd party one which will do the job, still I would have preferred to sort this one out .

Cheers Murray P
Murray P (44)
272291 2004-09-14 17:54:00 Well, I'm back in Yoper after not being able to get into any OS at all for several hours. I'm going to give windows a crack now.

Cheers Murray P
Murray P (44)
272292 2004-09-14 18:29:00 In windows now, the boot process is really wierd. I'll explain another time, I'm getting some much needed shut eye, if those freaking birds will shut up that is.

Cheers Murray P
Murray P (44)
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