I'm not 100% sure, but I do believe that putting it in the mbr should be
just fine, LILO goes, and just hands it off to NT normally as I recall.
I have lilo in my MBR, and a fat c: partition, and NT actually boots out of
an NTFS partition. Lilo comes up, I type dos, and am then in the NT loader.
Make an emergency recovery disk, and try it. I think the dos "FDISK /MBR"
command will put things back the way they were.
At 09:30 AM 6/2/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Is it possible to set up a Linux/NT dual boot IF NTFS is the only filesystem
>used by NT? My inclination is to say no. considering that LILO has to be
able
>to point to the NTLDR. If the NTLDR is on an NTFS partition, would LILO be
>able to point to it?
>
>The reason I ask, is that I have an NT system here at work with all drives
>formatted in NTFS for security. If I begin the Linux install, I am going to
>have to use fdisk to set up the new partitions to install Linux and the swap
>space to. Where should I locate LILO? If I put it in the MBR, then
wouldn't
>NT have problems booting up? Has anyone else done this successfully?
>
>Thanks
>
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