At 13:26 26/06/01 +0200, you wrote:
>Cedar Cox wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Eran Levy wrote:
>>
>>>No No. Im sorry. From my experience, knowledge and testings, I have got
>>>this:
>>>When I have installed NT loader after installing Linux, Linux showed up
>>>in the menu and I only had to choose it from the menu and press ENTER.
>>>Im not telling this because "I heard it from...". I tested this and
>>>thats what I have got.
>>>Again, Its not regarding to other windows versions 95/98. They overwrite
>>>your MBR and LILO is gone after installing them so I cant recommend this.
>What about when updating kernels? What do you need to update? I would also
>love to see the boot.ini that your computer created.
Thats another problem.
>Note that this only applies to installing Linux before NT.
>
sure.
>>windows/dos have the MBR the way it wants to.. all you have to do after
>>you install windows (if you installed linux first) is go into fdisk and
>>set your linux root partition boot flag (and remove it from any other
>>partition). I've never had any problems with this method. Comments?
>Actually, there are. If that's your approach, you'll find that you need to
>change active partition every time you want to switch Linux/windows. I,
>personally, do not feel comfertable with manually tweeking my partition
>table. I know that some multi-boots do that automatically (boot magic),
>and I'm still not sure how comfertable I am with that.
>
>The beuty of using the NT boot manager is that, on one hand, you don't
>need to install any program beyond those already installed on your system,
>and on the other hand, you don't need to touch your partition table every
>time you want a different boot. The only thing is how to update the boot
>manager every time you recompile. My favourite:
>Add to boot.ini
>C:\BOOTSECT.LIN="Linux"
>
>from linux (assuming C:\ is mounted as /mnt/C), do
>dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/mnt/C/BOOTSECT.LIN bs=512 count=1
>
>and in lilo.conf, change root to read
>root=/mnt/C/BOOTSECT.LIN
>
> From there on - continue as usual.
>
>If you cannot write to your NT root from linux (NTFS), bootpart is the
>best way to go.
>
> Shachar
>
>
----
Regards,
Eran Levy.
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
WebSite: http://www15.brinkster.com/liloboot
"This is Linux country. If you listen carefully, you can hear Windows reboot..."
=================================================================
To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with
the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command
echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
