First let me say a big thanks to all those who offered suggestions and tried to help. For those who might be interested I will list some extra pointers and state the final outcome. 1. The machine is not mine, therefore I did not have the option to remove Windows or play about with the partitions. 2. It was working fine with 7.0 until someone did an upgrade to 7.1 3. My machine works fine with 7.1 and I have a similar partition setup WRT Windows. (However, I have multiple ext2 partitions; none with reiserfs). Conclusion: The owner has reclaimed the machine and decided to live with the problem. Eddie On Monday 23 April 2001 13:20, you 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