At 08:10 AM 5/22/00 +1000, DaZZa wrote:
>On Sun, 21 May 2000, Kieran wrote:
>
> > > I used the old "make a copy of the boot sector into a file" method
> because
> > > I was running NT, and I've never yet been able to make LILO kick into
> NT's
> > > boot loader successfully, but apart from that - no problems. I've got a
> > > DOS partition {with DOS installed}, NT and now SuSE 6.4 installed on it,
> > > all living happily. SuSE 6.4 even reads the NT partition properly and
> > > mounts it - colour me impressed! I'll have to buy a copy of it instead of
> > > just borrowing one. :-)
> >
> > regarding the "Can't make lilo boot into the NT loader" I have
> > successfully got this to happen, as far as I remember (going off the
> > top of my head here) all you had to do was to tell lilo what partition you
> > were looking at and the NT loader would pickup from there. Aka in my
> > situation I think it was just a matter of adding :
> >
> > other=/dev/hda1
> > label=win
>
>Never been able to make that work - Oh, it'll start the NT loader - then
>promptly lock up.
I seem to remember some notes in LINUX UNCOVERED about making this work -
if I can find my copy, I'll post them here.
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