Re: Linux and NT Workstation 4.0

Michael Nelson (nelson@seahunt.imat.com)
Wed, 24 Feb 1999 00:38:13 -0800

On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 04:28:52AM +0000, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

-> It won't, but you can coax the NT boot code into booting LILO.
-> Basically, the boot= option in LILO should point to your Linux
-> partition (not to the MBR), then after each run of LILO you need to dd
-> the LILO boot sector to a file on your FAT (or NTFS, if you're gutsy)
-> partition that you then specify in your boot.ini (I think it's called)
-> file...

Wow, you don't have to do all that. The following /etc/lilo.conf boots nt
workstation 4.0 sp4 on ntfs filesystem just fine:

boot=/dev/sda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
vga=ask
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux
root=/dev/sdb1
read-only
append="aic7xxx=ultra,tag_info:{{12,12}},verbose"
image=/boot/vmlinuz.good
label=linux.good
root=/dev/sdb1
read-only
append="aic7xxx=ultra,tag_info:{{12,12}},verbose"
image=/boot/vmlinuz.old
label=linux.old
root=/dev/sdb1
read-only
append="aic7xxx=ultra,tag_info:{{12,12}},verbose"
other=/dev/sda1
label=nt
table=/dev/sda

...all I have to do is type "nt" at the lilo boot prompt.

Michael

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Michael Nelson             San Francisco, CA             nelson@imat.com


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