Thanx a ton.
I got it working before I read this mail. A silly mistake of one of my
collegues here made his whole day swaying from NT loader to the Linux boot
floppy.
He did the mistake of using "dd" on the / partition instead of the /boot
partition.
Anyway Thanx a ton for your help. I am saving your message for future
reference.
Thanx again.
VaibhaV Sharma
Network Administrator
Ebot TechnoSoft Ltd.
(www.ebot.co.in)
Indore
----- Original Message -----
From: Raghunath L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 5:48 PM
Subject: Re: [LIH] Using NT boot loader,some body through there light behind
this
> First you should have installed the lilo in first sector of the root
> partition.
>
> if you already installed the lilo in mbr don't panic the back up of the
> original boot lodar is at /boot/boot.0300 something like this for scsi
> boot.800 check for file name once
>
> make sure you have back up all the data before.
>
> first you make a boot floppy form linux.
>
> check for uninstall option for lilo and reinstall it in first sector in
> linux partition(man pages I never tried it),please some body through there
> light on this
>
> dd if=/boot/boot.300 of=/dev/hda (assuming you have ide drive as primary)
> bs=496 count=1
>
> you will get back the original mbr back with out lilo
>
> if you don't restore it using winnt repair disk.
>
> if you freshly installing linux select first sector of linux drive
>
> use dd
>
> dd if=/dev/hda5 of=boot.linux bs=512 count=1
>
> launch the nt open boot.ini, copy the boot.linux to c:\
>
> give an entry like c:\boot.linux "LINUX"
>
> restart the nt you will see linux there
>
> again nt will launch linux.
>
> but the diadvatage with if you corrupt thr boot.ini both nt and linu are
> off.(unless you have boot diskette).
>
> lilo is more flexible still Microsoft nt users wan't to make linux as
> unstable as NT why this ?
>
> I don't get the funda behind useing dirty boot.ini.
>
> VaibhaV Sharma wrote:
>
> > Hiya,
> > Can anyone point me to some doc which has detils about using NT4.0 as
the
> > boot loader for booting into Linux. The situatiion is that that we have
a
> > windoze NT4 machine and we installed RH6.2 on it. We need to get the
boot
> > loader thing getting to work correctly.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > VaibhaV Sharma
> >
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