Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Feb 1999 10:16:59 +0000 (GMT) | From | Shaw Carruthers <> | Subject | Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: Linux and NT Workstation 4.0 |
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On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Steve Dodd wrote:
> This, if I remember correctly, is the trick. For some reason, NT's boot code > barfs after LILO calls it if the MBR isn't NT's. So install LILO on the > superblock of your ext2 partition and mark it as the active partition. So the > NT mbr invokes LILO, which can load Linux or the NT boot code as necessary. > >
I have used lilo to boot NT SP3 with no problem.
NT is installed in hda1, lilo in hda.
# LILO configuration file # generated by 'liloconfig' # # Start LILO global section #verbose=3 boot = /dev/hda #compact # faster, but won't work on all systems. prompt timeout = 300 default = linux vga = normal # force sane state linear # End LILO global section # DOS bootable partition config begins: BOOTS NT other = /dev/hda1 label = other table = /dev/hda # DOS bootable partition config ends # DOS bootable partition config begins: BOOTS W98 ON D: other = /dev/sda1 label = w98 loader= /boot/any_d.b # DOS bootable partition config ends # Linux bootable partition config begins image = /vmlinuz root = /dev/hda4 append = "ether=9,0,0,0,eth0 console=tty1 ncr53c8xx=nvram:y" label = linux read-only # Non-UMSDOS filesystems should be mounted read-only for checking # Linux bootable partition config ends
-- Shaw Carruthers - shaw@shawc.demon.co.uk London SW14 7JW UK This is not a sig( with homage to Magritte).
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