I installed linux on another computer with windows and it does not boot, although linux does. Why is this? I think the windows partition is primary and the linux boot partition is primary, but I do not think this would make a difference. It just makes a blinking curser and says booting windows

Lilo or grub?

Post your lilo.conf/grub.conf file.

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You didn''t install Linux on the same partition as Windows did you?

If you have them on different partitions make sure that your boot loaders ".conf" file has an entry for your Windows installation, and has the actual path to where windows is on your hard disk, if you aren''t quite sure, you can run fdisk and see where it is.

If you did a standard Windows installation and then added Linux on the end of the hard disk, then Windows is probably on hda1. If this is the case, then adding the following to the end of lilo.conf should work:

other=/dev/hda1    label=Windows

Just make sure you have a prompt line at the top.

I don''t know what the syntax would be for GRUB, as I''ve only ever used lilo.

If you are using Grub, add the following to the /boot/grub/menu.lst file:

title Windowsrootnoverify (hd0,0)chainloader +1 

http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/index.html

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Please tell us that you didnt install Linux on the SAME partition as Windows. Assuming you didnt your problem is fixable..

Jon

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