?? Lilo, Win NT, MBR problems: a catch 22
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
Re: ?? Lilo, Win NT, MBR problems: a catch 22
[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 - I use System Commander 2000 a commercial boot loader that will allow you to do what you want. it is cheap and works flawlessly. It did not work with Win2000 the last time I checked but that may be fixed now. Happy Holidays! John
Re: ?? Lilo, Win NT, MBR problems: a catch 22
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.
Re: ?? Lilo, Win NT, MBR problems: a catch 22
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 06:25:28PM -0500, [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 See the Linux+NT-Loader mini-HOWTO (included in the doc-linux-txt package).
Re: ?? Lilo, Win NT, MBR problems: a catch 22
i did this recently, and as a solution i just created a 15MB C: drive for the boot loader(primary partition) then Linux got a /boot partition and NT got it's own primary partition. then i load LILO to the MBR and tell it to boot to C: (which then loads NT's boot loader) to load NT or load linux off it's own partition for linux. ive worked with other ways to do this including copying the boot sectors to a file for nt's boot.ini but i didn't like how that worked. in my experience the above was a better solution. (or just put NT on a FAT partition ..depending on your needs and the size of the HDD ..) nate [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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
