On 2003-12-24, Carlton Whitmore <cwhitmoreNOSPAM@NOSPAMaustin.rr.com> wrote:

> I installed Win2k Pro first on one partition then SW 9.1 on another
> partition. Both partitions were listed as bootable in cfdisk, but when I
> rebooted after install I got "invalid partition". When I changed the SW
> partition to non-bootable it booted straight to Win2k. I know when I
> installed SW 9.1 that it asked me if I wanted to install the boot loader in
> MBR, Floppy or the SW partition. I told it the SW partition, but that
> obviously didn't work.

You should have only one partition marked as bootable, otherwise the
BIOS won't know which one to boot and will give you some sort of bad
partition table message, which apparently is what happened to you.

If you installed the boot loader in you root partition, marked the
root partition bootable and marked the XP partition non-bootable,
the computer should boot with the lilo booot loader.

If you are dual booting XP and linux you can use the XP boot loader
to start linux. There is a how-to on the subject that comes with
Slackware.

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reh <someone@somewhere.com> wrote:

> Where where you many years ago when I needed this!

Probably helping newbies on local LUG mailing lists. IIRC, I only
started posting to AOLS in late 1998 or early 1999.

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George Georgakis-geeg AT tripleg net au-http://www.tripleg.net.au/
SlackBuild Central - http://slackpack.tripleg.net.au/

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