On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Tom Diehl wrote:
>
> > Naah, just needs to be a primary partition. lilo does the magic to look in the
>proper partition.
> > I have done it from various disks even the 3rd and 4th disk and various partitions
>on thse disks.
> > Now that I think about it I am not even sure it needs to be a primary for NT. I
>kinda remember
> > getting it to boot from an extended partition but I am not sure. I have not done
>this for a
> > couple of years.
>
> IIRC, primary good, logical bad. But you're right about booting from
> other partitions. Also, IIRC, it will only boot from a 2nd, 3rd, etc
> drive if the bootable partition on the first drive is FAT or NTFS.
> Seriously, if you know how to boot NT that's entirely on NTFS from
> lilo, I'd love to know how. So far, everybody that claimed to do so had
> a DOS partition in there.
Based on what you said above I am getting confused about exactly what it is you want
to do.
If what you are saying is install NT on and NTFS partition and boot it from lilo then
that
is possible and what I have done. If it is something else then I will have to think
about it.
I have over the years booted win 9x, NT, and even plain DOS 5 and 6.x from lilo on
just about
all flavors of M$ file systems including NTFS.
I do not have ANY dos partitions on my dual boot machine. Just ext2 and 1 NTFS (I
think it is
still there I have not booted it in 6 months or so I will have to look.) I am
remodeling
my computer room and that machine is down for a few more days. What have you tried?
Have
you tried putting lilo on the linux boot partition and making the linux boot partition
active
in fdisk (1024 cyl restrictions if any apply)? One thing I have done for about the
last 5 years
on any computer I have built is to make the first partition on the disk a 15-20 Meg
linux
boot partition. That way I have max. flexibility in laying out the disks anyway I
want. The
only OS I have not succeeded in booting from lilo is Solaris. I have heard that this
is even
possible but I gave up b4 I got it working. I got it to coexist on the same machine
and just
changed the active partition to boot it.
HTH,
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