On 5 Feb 00, at 14:33, Lane Lester wrote: > For several hours I've been without a system that would boot to any > OS. My goal was to move Corel Linux's lilo from the MBR to its boot > partition so that I could add Debian and control everything with Win > NT's boot manager. > > I thought I had a procedure figured out that would work... I was > wrong. I won't bore you with a procedure that didn't work; suffice it > to say that I was left with a system that, at boot time, would just > stream "0x01" continuously up the screen. > > I reinstalled Windows NT in hopes of restoring the MBR (MBR) where I > figured the problem was. I hadn't used NT in so long that there would > be no loss in reinstalling. But that didn't fix the problem; I still > couldn't boot. > > So I bit the bullet and reinstalled Corel Linux from scratch, and at > least now I can run both it and Win 98 again. But that leaves me once > again under the domination of Corel Linux's lilo with no way to add > another Linux. > You should be able to update the lilo.conf file in core's partition to add the boot image for the other version of linux. This months Linux Journal had a great article on multiboot machines. If you would like I will type in his lilo.conf file as an example, just email me direct and I will send it to you. --------------------------------------------------------- "Clothes make the man, naked people have little or no influence on society" --Mark Twain--
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