Re: dual boot Linux/NT question

1998-11-10 Thread jpjevans
Damir, Did you make your Linux partition bootable? I recently installed Linux on drive D: of a two-disk NT box. At first, I used a custom boot disk when I wanted to run Linux. Over the past weekend, though, I figured out how to add Linux to the NT loader

Re: dual boot Linux/NT question

1998-11-10 Thread joseph evan porter
I recently installed Linux on drive D: of a two-disk NT box. At first, I used a custom boot disk when I wanted to run Linux. Over the past weekend, though, I figured out how to add Linux to the NT loader list and at first I had the same symptom as you: a blank

Re: dual boot Linux/NT question

1998-11-08 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Rakesh Mohan; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: I am also trying to config my system for dual load from NT loader. I followed the steps mentioned by Pat, but if i select the Linux option then the system hangs. I see the blank screen with blinking cursor at the top left. (Note:

Re: dual boot Linux/NT question

1998-11-08 Thread Daniel Martin
Damir J. Naden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Rakesh Mohan; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: SNIP BTW, I can now use lilo for branching to NT and linux, this works fine. That is interesting. I was never able to do this. Maybe because my NT partition was NTFS.. damir I just today set

Re: dual boot Linux/NT question

1998-11-07 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 06:51:08PM -0500, Damir J. Naden wrote: this is very true... I am using same method with the exception of the line added to the boot.ini; I just have a line that reads: C:\bootsect.lnx=linux where bootsect.lnx is the same file as described by Pat. I have to update (I

Re: dual boot Linux/NT question

1998-11-07 Thread Rakesh Mohan
this is very true... I am using same method with the exception of the line added to the boot.ini; I just have a line that reads: C:\bootsect.lnx=linux where bootsect.lnx is the same file as described by Pat. I have to update (I learned it _the hard way_) this file and boot.ini _every_ time I

dual boot Linux/NT question

1998-11-06 Thread Steve Ball
Hi all: My hdd is partitioned: hda1 [boot] NT DOS hda2 [boot] Linux hda3 hda4 I tried the various lilo.conf settings suggested to dual boot and system booted straight to Linux every time. Acting upon a recent submission, I reinstalled NT (without reformat or repartition). Now system boots

Re: dual boot Linux/NT question

1998-11-06 Thread Patrick Ouellette
I had a similar problem. NT bootloader likes to control the system and load bootsectors from a file. You should be able to solve it with the following. Boot into Linux (use a rescue disk if your machine does not boot into Linux) Install Lilo on the LINUX PARTITION use dd to copy the boot

Re: dual boot Linux/NT question

1998-11-06 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Patrick Ouellette; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: rumor has it that you need to update the bootsector file whenever you update your kernel. this is very true... I am using same method with the exception of the line added to the boot.ini; I just have a line that reads: