Peter Popov wrote:

> After running lilo, the partition is listed. It does not boot, though.
> I know it's working because I can set my BIOS to boot from that disk
> and XP works fine. In fact this post is being written in XP.
> 
> What am I doing wrong?

  As Marabou mentioned, you can't just have boot partitions on slave disks. 
At least not by simply adding the entry to lilo.conf. But it can be done 
with a little trick: I've done it in the past. The problem is that I don't 
remember it exactly... it was done with the "map-drive" command to switch 
the disks. Something like:

  other=/dev/hdb1
  label=WinXP
  table=/deb/hdb
  map-drive=0x80
    to=0x81
  map-drive=0x81
    to=0x80

  Hope this helps...


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