Re: [OFFTOPIC?] LILO and Windows NT

Alistair Riddell (alistair@watsons.edin.sch.uk)
Tue, 24 Mar 1998 00:33:50 +0000 (GMT)


You might try pointing lilo at ntldr. You should find this at the root
level of you boot partition.

On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Mathew Burrack wrote:

> Hello.
>
> Excuse this posting, as it may be offtopic for the Kernel list, but I
> don't know where else to post such a question.
>
> Here's my situation: I have on my computer several (okay, many)
> partitions. Most of them are Win95 partitions, one is for Linux, one is
> for the Linux swap, and one more is a Windows NT partition. A while ago,
> I reformatted my Win95 boot partition, unknowingly erasing my access to
> Windows NT and Linux in the process (luckily I had my handy-dandy Linux
> boot disk right next to me....) Previously, I was using LILO to switch
> between Linux and the Win95 partition, then the Windows NT boot manager
> would kick in to ask me whether I really meant Win95 or did I mean
> WinNT. Now, of course, the WinNT boot manager isn't there anymore, and
> since I don't have my WinNT CD handy--and plus I prefer it this way--I
> was wondering if there was a method of getting LILO to recognize the
> WinNT partition as bootable. I've run LILO several times normally, just
> as if I were updating the Kernel version, but it only finds the Linux
> and Win95 partitions. Is there a special way of making it find the WinNT
> partition, or am I out of luck here?
>
> Thank you all,
> Mathew Burrack
>
>
>
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