Re: Linux and NT Workstation 4.0

Marcel J.E. Mol (marcel@mesa.nl)
Wed, 24 Feb 1999 13:15:58 +0100 (MET)


Lately, H. Peter Anvin announced:
>
> Followup to: <36D36CAB.6512F263@redshift.com>
> By author: Jeff 9360431 <aatheus@redshift.com>
> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> >
> > What I need to know is if LILo will boot the NT kernel the same way it
> > boots the Linux and Windows 95 kernels. Otherwise, my system will get a
> > major screwing-over. Has anyone else tried this and been successful? Or
> > is NT's boot code too stubborn for LILO to load?
> >
>
> 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...
>

I had a win98 and linux partition running using LILO to select which one
to run, and then installed nt on the system. LILO then
let me select between windows and linux. When I choose windows the
nt loader starts and allows me to select between nt or win98...

Guess the same should be possible if nt is already installed...

-Marcel

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