At 09:25 30/05/2000, Michael D. Crawford wrote:
>An alternative I've seen references to is to use lilo to boot NT. If I
>could do that I'd be happy. My whole fat partition lies within the 1024
>limit.
Yes, you can. - That is in fact how I boot my NT. - Just install LILO in
the MBR so it doesn't kill the NT boot sector on the NTFS partition.
Here is a simplified version of my /etc/lilo.conf which you can use as a
starting point, the key being the bottom of the file starting from "other =":
boot = /dev/sda
timeout = 100
prompt
default = l4
vga = 3
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
image = /boot/bzImage-2.4.0-test1-ac4
append = "video=matrox:vesa:0x11C,depth:32,fh:100,fv:160,maxclk:200"
label = l4
root = /dev/sda9
read-only
other = /dev/sda2
label = wnt
table = /dev/sda
Obviously you have to change the /dev/* to point to whatever your hardware
setup is.
Run lilo after editing and you should be absolutely fine.
>But what I'm asking in this question is how safe it would be to mount
>the NT partition writeable and copy the 512 byte file over the existing
>512 byte file. That should be safe as these things go but the note in
>the kernel config help is pretty extreme in its warning.
Copying one file on top of the other will probably work without causing
damage, at least the times I have done that it has worked ok. But then
again don't blame me if your NTFS partition blows up... - It would be much
safer and more elegant to use LILO.
HTH,
Anton
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