Hi Jean, you wrote on: 20 Jan 99 at 13:14 (received 21.01.99) about : _Re: dualboot linux and NT?_
>> That's exactly the problem, you need to have a FAT16-partition within the >> first 1024 cylinders of the first harddrive. The so-called C: (speaking in >> DOS-/Win-terms). > >This is clearly not true. I have a dual boot configuration on my Dell >Inspiron with one IDE harddrive configured as follows: > > MBR lilo I'm sorry, I did not make myself clear enough: what I meant is, if you have the NT-Bootmanager on the MBR of your hd, it needs the NTLDR, NTDETECT.COM and BOOT.INI on the first Fat16-partition. I have the following configuration (three SCSI-hds, each 2 GB): MBR: NT-Bootmanager sda1 Win 95 (fat 16) 1 GB sda2 Win NT 4.0, SP3 (NTFS) 1 GB sdb1 Linux (ext2) 1.9 GB sbd5 Linux swap 0.1 GB sdc1 Data (fat 16) 2 GB And I boot LILO with the NT-Bootmanager, also works fine. > partition-1 Windows-NT, 4.0-service pack 4, NTFS > partition-2 FAT32, pagefile.sys, only used for virtual memory How does that work? I was always under the impression, that Fat32 was not supported by NT 4.0. Kind regards Frederick