hi dev null You have to install LILO in the boot or root partition, not in the MBR, if this works for linux 'g' you cant get nt up again. i don't think this works for your configuration, but the boot or root partitions are not on the first harddisk. you can also boou linux via the nt boot manager as discribed below: you install lilo in the root partition (lets call it /dev/hda4) now boot linux via a boot floppy and then do the following: dd if=/dev/hda4 bs=512 count=1 of=/bootsect.lin this writes the bootsector of your root-partition to the bootsect.lin file (this is where lilo is installed) now copy the file to a fat16 formated floppy and reboot your machine with NT. now copy the file to C:\ (the root of your boot-drive) and append the following line to the boot.ini file: c:\bootsect.lin="Linux". now you got an extra line in the NT-bootmanager wich boots your linux system. best regards Grojer Jürgen CCN EB Mailadministration SIEMENS AG Austria Siemensstr. 88 - 92 1211 Wien Tel.: +43 51707 29153 Handy: +43 676 3792713 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Dev Null [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet am: Montag, 13. März 2000 08:03 An: Linux Expert Betreff: [expert] LILO woes I have a Windows NT system with two HD. The first disk is 1 partition with only Windows NT. The second disk has three partitions, NT uses one, the second is the one I'm trying to install Mandrake-Linux to, the third is the Linux swap. The install goes fine, except LILO is not working. When the pc boots up it prints "1 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01" repeatedly on the screen. I have to boot with a windows disk and run fdisk /mbr to get the PC to boot again, and then it's only going into NT (expected). I'm telling lilo that NT is at hda1, and Linux is at hdb2. Am I missing something? Shouldn't this work, ok so it doesn't, so what do I need to do to get it to work? /dev/null [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
