My understanding is that there is a boot sector on each
partition, and a master boot record on each disk, so if the mbr is empty, the
machine boots from the active partition's boot sector. In my case, lilo is in
the mbr, and gives me the option of booting the NT loader in hda1's boot
sector, or
NT uses the MBR the way MS always has - just a pointer to the actual boot
code. When you install LILO in the MBR, it sets its own pointer to NT's boot
code, so when lilo comes up you can select "dos" (or whatever you named it,
it was "dos" by default on my machine) and lilo will jump to NT's boot
Yes, that's right. ntldr (NT Loader) resides on NT's partition, so you
can use whatever boot loader you like in the MBR. A DOS MBR will just
pick up on the active partition, so setting NT's partition to active
(which it should be already) and running "fdisk /mbr" from DOS fdisk will
fix the prob
Trevor, if NT is not using MBR, then my question is how does the machine know how
to go to NT loader when you do a single boot, without Linux, to your NT OS? And if
you install Lilo to MBR, how are you getting back to boot into NT? Your thoughts on
that would be very interesting..
Craig
Trev
Funny, but I have never had this problem with NT/Linux dual booting on my
machine at work. AFAIK, NT doesn't use the MBR, as I have lilo in the MBR and
NT still boots as usual. If this is correct, then a fdisk/mbr is all you need
to do to correct your NT problem, but you still need to fix your l
Bug Hunter wrote:
> Get your NT installation cd. If it is NT 4, on another machine create
> the three boot floppies for NT. Then boot from those floppies, with NT in
> the cdrom drive. It will ask you if you want to repair a previous NT
> installation. That is what you want to do.
>
> i've
Get your NT installation cd. If it is NT 4, on another machine create
the three boot floppies for NT. Then boot from those floppies, with NT in
the cdrom drive. It will ask you if you want to repair a previous NT
installation. That is what you want to do.
i've never done this. Good luck.
Joeuse a dos or windows9x boot disc with fdisk on it and
type:
fdisk /mbr
NT uses the same mbr bootstrap as dos and windows9x.
Alan
Joseph S Gardner wrote:
>
> Ok, after banging head on keyboard I've decided to ask for help.
>
> I tried installing 7.0-2 on a 6x85 MX 200 that alr
Joseph S Gardner wrote:
> Ok, after banging head on keyboard I've decided to ask for help.
>
> I tried installing 7.0-2 on a 6x85 MX 200 that already had NT on it.
> I added a 3rd HD and dedicated it entirely to linux leaving the first
> 2 alone (silly me) hoping to dual boot.
>
> Well all was go
Ok, after banging head on keyboard I've decided to ask for help.
I tried installing 7.0-2 on a 6x85 MX 200 that already had NT on it.
I added a 3rd HD and dedicated it entirely to linux leaving the first
2 alone (silly me) hoping to dual boot.
Well all was going well until I went to configure X
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