Hi,
Initially I had a Linspire (used to be called Lindows) version of linux on my hda1. (Its the first Linux I loaded) .

The I loaded Knoppix onto hda3. I've been trying to get Lilo to have a Linspire option in the boot menu so I can boot either but every time I try modding lilo.conf I am told that "hda1 does not contain a valid boot signature'.

I have tried reading the various dual boot posts and procedures but either I don't understand them or I am getting the instructions wrong. (One of the joys of noob-iness!!)

The machine has only one actual hard drive. Here's how it's partitioned and used;

hda1 >>>> Linspire (used to be Lindows)
hda3 >>>> Knoppix
hda5 >>>> a FAT32 partition for file and data storage
hda6 >>>> my Linux swap partition.

Here is the portion of the standard LILO.CONF file from Knoppix. (The rest of it is totally unchanged so I haven't pasted it to save space) You can see where I pasted entried from the other OS.


# If you have another OS on this machine to boot, you can uncomment the
# following lines, changing the device name on the 'other' line to
# where your other OS' partition is.
#
# other=/dev/hda4
# label=HURD
# restricted
# alias=3
other=/dev/hda1
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.24
label=Linspire
vga=0xf04
root=/dev/hda1
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.24.gz
append="mem=nopentium resume=/dev/hda1 resume_block=0x2014"


Can anyone help? If I have to reload either OS I don't mind.

Thanks
Jim