Windows missing in bootloader

[MrWhisp]

Hello,

 

My bootloader crashed, and I reinstalled it on MBR. Everything works fine except that windows is missing (before the crash windows was showing). Anyone know how I can fix it?

 

/Mr Whisp

 

[moved from Installing Mandrake by spinynorman]

[chris z]

you need to edit your lilo.conf file & add an entry for your Windows partition. the easiest way to do so (IMHO) is (if your using KDE) open Konqueror in SuperUser mode. (open a terminal, su to root, type konqueror, hit enter) navigate to your /etc directory. use your favourite text editor to open the lilo.conf file located in /etc. add the following entry somewhere in that file.........

other=/dev/hdXNUMBER
label="windows"
table=/dev/hdX

 

where other= /dev/hdXNUMBER is X=the letter of your hard drive (usually "a") & NUMBER=the number of your Windows partition (can be any number, depending on which partition Windows resides on). label= can be any name you want to show up in the lilo menu choices for Windows. and table=/dev/hdX is X= the letter of your hard drive. for instance, my old dual boot with Win98 looks like this........

 

other=/dev/hda1
label="windows"
table=/dev/hda

 

here's the excerpt from my lilo to show where it goes.........

 

image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="failsafe"
root=/dev/hda5
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="failsafe acpi=ht resume=/dev/hda3 devfs=nomount"
read-only

other=/dev/hda1
label="windows"
table=/dev/hda

other=/dev/fd0
label="floppy"
unsafe

 

after you edit lilo.conf, save it, then in terminal as root type........

 

lilo -v

 

hit enter.

 

reboot for changes to take effect.

 

if you're using Gnome or another DE, the same method applies, but you need to use whatever the appropriate file manger for that DE would be to access the lilo.conf file for editing.

 

Chris

Edited June 16, 2004 by chris z

[MrWhisp]

It worked perfectly! Thanks a lot!

 

/Mr Whisp