Re: NT and Debian...O.S. loader 4.01 sux!

1999-01-15 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 07:11:32PM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote: NT loader 4.01 will overwirte mbr without any warning. you can get the debian rescue image, and boot linux from the floppy disk... then you can mount the linux native partition and reinstall lilo on the root partition.

Re: NT and Debian...O.S. loader 4.01 sux!

1999-01-13 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, NT loader 4.01 will overwirte mbr without any warning. you can get the debian rescue image, and boot linux from the floppy disk... then you can mount the linux native partition and reinstall lilo on the root partition. After that, go back to NT and set the linux native

Re: NT and Debian...O.S. loader 4.01 sux!

1999-01-13 Thread Rainer Clasen
Hi! Martin Schulze ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), Re: NT and Debian...O.S. loader 4.01 sux!: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what up! scenario: i had Linux on my laptop running efficiently well...however, i just installed NT4.0 without preparing LiLo for the image of NT...now, my laptop will only

Re: NT and Debian...O.S. loader 4.01 sux!

1999-01-12 Thread Martin Schulze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what up! scenario: i had Linux on my laptop running efficiently well...however, i just installed NT4.0 without preparing LiLo for the image of NT...now, my laptop will only boot to NT (o.s. loader 4.01 takes over) and I dont know of any way to get back into Linux

Re: NT and Debian...O.S. loader 4.01 sux!

1999-01-12 Thread Kent West
At 05:17 PM 1/12/1999 +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what up! scenario: i had Linux on my laptop running efficiently well...however, i just installed NT4.0 without preparing LiLo for the image of NT...now, my laptop will only boot to NT (o.s. loader 4.01 takes over)

Re: NT and Debian...O.S. Loader 4.01 sux!

1999-01-12 Thread Steve Beitzel
If you want to avoid a headache, you can configure the NT Boot Loader to boot your Debian system for you by doing the following IIRC (It's been a long time since I used NT :) 1) Boot to Debian using a boot floppy or the Rescue disk. 2) Type the following, where X is the number of your linux

Re: NT and Debian...O.S. Loader 4.01 sux!

1999-01-12 Thread Alec Smith
That sounds about right. I run Debian and NT Workstation 4 on my desktop. One suggestion -- Try mounting your C: drive under Linux and then use dd if=/dev/hdaX of=/mnt/linux.bts bs=512 count=1 to avoid having to copy over later. Also remember to remove the hidden, system, and read-only