You don't have to go through all of this. Use bootpart. This is a NT
console program that will create the necessary boot file, for the NT boot
manager, to boot any partition from within NT itself. And while I'm not
absolutely certain it also appears to me that this boot file actually boots
the partition and is not just a copy of the LILO boot so when you update the
LILO boot on your Linux partition there is no need to recreate the boot file
for use with the NT boot manager. I have been using it successfully now for
several months.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Flinders" <paul@dawa.demon.co.uk>
To: "Michael D. Crawford" <crawford@goingware.com>
Cc: <a1a21@cus.cam.ac.uk>; <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 11:54 AM
Subject: Re: How stable is NTFS write?
>
> "Michael D. Crawford" <crawford@goingware.com> writes:
>
> >
> > Further, rather than using lilo to boot my machine, I use the NT boot
> > manager. This is easily done by using lilo to install the boot block
> > into the superblock of the root partition, then I do this to get my
> > bootsector:
> >
> > dd if=/dev/hda3 of=bootsect.lin bs=512 count=1
> >
> > then I copy bootsect.lin to my fat filesystem, _then_boot_into_nt_ then
> > copy it to my NTFS partition, where the NT boot menu is already set up
> > to expect that for a boot sector for linux, then reboot again.
>
> I'm in a similar situation and it *is* a pain to have to copy the boot
> sector across on a floppy - fortunately you can use the NT loader
> without having to update the NT copy of the boot sector each time you
> rebuild a kernel.
>
<< snip >>
> Now copy /boot/chain.bs to where the NT loader expects it. Now even if
> you re-run lilo you don't need to update the NT side. I do this both
> at home and at work and it works fine, the only "price" is that if you
> look carefully you can see that lilo actually loads twice.
>
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