Dual Boot Woes

[Wunderdog]

At the moment I have Windows ME & Windows 2000 installed onto two partions on my HDD. I have just installed Re Hat Linux 5.1 onto a spare partition on my hard drive and will boot OK from a Linux boot disk.

Following advice from a Linux HOWTO notice I have managed to strip the LILO and creat a BOOTSECT.LNX file which is on the boot partition and I have also modified the BOOT.INI to "see" the Linux file.

When I boot my PC and try to load Windows ME or Windows 2000 it loads without problems. However when I try the Linux option the system hangs with an "L" in the top left corner of my screen.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to resolve this one please.

[Whyzman]

I'm not a Linux user, so I just did some poking around.

HERE'S (http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win2000/t1022782719) a discussion from another Forum regarding your a similar situation. My attention was drawn to the mentioned "boot loader" in Twanda's post.

And, you might want to have a look at THIS (http://www.compaq.com/products/servers/linux/compaq-howto-4.html)

[Rick]

The “L” You are seeing is Nt loader handing off to the Lilo Loader
You have not completely removed Lilo or your Bootsec.lnx has an error in it.

Too remove Lilo run “lilo -u “ from a command prompt or shell
If you have already done this then you should double check your Bootsec file

[Wunderdog]

I've tried the two suggestions by Rick but I'm still getting the same results.