Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan wrote: > > On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Mrpeabody wrote: > > > I currently have debian running on a ide drive on my computer and I have > > recently purchases a scsi drive so that I can boot windows from the > > scsi. Can I use lilo to tell it to boot the scsi drive up and run > > windows? Trying to make a dual boot machine. > > I only know two people running dual boot NT/linux (actually tri-boot > NT/95/linux) and they inform me that lilo won't boot NT or NT need the > mbr or something and so they have to use the NT bootloader and loadlin > to get linux bootstraped.
Yes. I'm dual-booting NT and Linux. I'm using something called "boopart". You use lilo to install a boot record on your root partion (not the mbr), and let bootpart create a chain loader for NT. I just did it this morning. Can't remember where I got bootpart from though. Dale