Pending further investigation, we now allege that [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > At home I have a laptop where win98 and linux co-exist, with lilo offering > to boot either one at startup. But at office, after linux installs lilo to > MBR, > NT won't boot. So, I went to boot floppy, ran fdisk /mbr; but now > machine won't boot linux. Boot floppy won't work for linux either. > > Reinstalled NT from scratch,and it is now the default boot. Since > can't boot linux from floppy, I am now reinstalling Potato. But, I > get stuck at ? where to put lilo. The /boot thing doesn't work for > me. I can boot with shift key down, but then computer hangs and > won't accept a number like 2. > > Shouldn't complain, I guess, but I lost a lot of time today because > of this problem. Newbie always appreciates help. TIA,,,dave
NT can boot from lilo, just set it up exactly as you would win98. You can also boot linux from ntloader; there's a howto that explains how to do this.
