You need to set the "bootable" flag on the XP partition. You can do this
with a disk partitioning utility like parted or fdisk.

"E Drake" wrote in message
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> I sinstalled SuSE8 on a machine with XP on it. After solving
> some trouble with getting SuSE to boot, I end up with XP not
> booting. LILO shows a Windows option in the mmenu, but it resuklts
> in a black screen withtext saying the disk is not bootable.
> From Linux, I see that the disk is readble, and its contents look
> generally ok (it is THERE at least)
>
> Is there a way I can solve this without reinstalling XP, and thus
> probably having to reinstall SuSE also (since from what I know XP
> overwrites the LILO stuff?
>
> Regards ///edvard

"William Winkler" wrote in message news:...
> You need to set the "bootable" flag on the XP partition. You can do this
> with a disk partitioning utility like parted or fdisk.
>

I found the fault. For some reason lilo.conf pointed out hda2 asd the
XP disk, while it really was hda1. After changing that, it works again