I think you main problem is that Winblows is very stingy and unfriendly and "must" be the 1st partion - always hda1. Remember that with dual boot system with Winblows you direct lilo to the MBR (master boot record) which is a DOS format. I have a dual boot sys and have had little or no problems (except since Linux can access and manipulate dos/win file systems you can screw up the window sys). My fstab looks like this: /dev/hdb3 / ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/hdb1 /boot ext2 defalults 1 2 /dev/cdrom /cdrom auto ro, noauto, user, exec 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0 /dev/fd0 /floppy auto noauto, user 0 0 /dev/hdb4 /opt ext2 defaults 1 2 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda1 /windows/C vfat noauto, user 0 0 /dev/hda5 /windows/D vfat noauto, user 0 0 /dev/hda6 /windows/E vfat noauto, user 0 0 /dev/sda4 /zip auto noauto, user 0 0 dev/hdb2 swap swap defaults 0 2 And another note, it is my understanding that if your putting Linux on the same hard drive that Winblows is on it is best to put Linux on a Extended partition and any following ext2 partitions on logical partitions within that Extended partition (keeps every one happy - why I don't know). However, if your putting Linux on its own hard drive (the 2nd or 3rd, etc...) then you can build a Primary partition for Linux and then Extended and logicals within after that. Hope this helps. Curtis Rey On Monday 23 April 2001 07:20 am, Eddie Howson wrote:
I hope I don't give anyone a heartattack with the subject heading but I am trying to reboot a system that has both 7.1 and Windows installed. From a cold start I can select windows from the lilo menu and it starts okay. It will also start okay from a Windows restart. However, once I have SuSE up and running if I do a restart and select Windows from the lilo menu it consistently fails to boot with the message that HIMEM.SYS is missing. As this problem only occurs from a SuSE reboot and has only started happening since the system was upgraded from SuSE 7.0 to 7.1 I suspect that it has something to do with the SuSE/lilo configuration.
The partitions are as follows: /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 (small boot partition, set as active) /dev/hda2 /windows vfat /dev/hda5 swap swap /dev/hda6 / reiserfs
Does anyone have any ideas (apart from dumping windows completely which unfortunately is not an option)?
TIA
Eddie