Re: Dual Booting Win NT and Debian
On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Tristan Day <that's you!> wrote:
> After going through the 'NT OS Loader + Linux mini-HOWTO,' I managed to dual
> boot Linux and NT, but only using a boot floppy for Linux. Although I am
> pleased that this time I installed Debian it didn't lock me out of NT, I
> still want to dual-boot from my hard drive as promised by the HOWTO.
>
> I have copied the bootsector using
>
> dd if-/dev/hda6 of=bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1
>
> and put it onto my c: drive, and put the line
>
> C:\BOOTSECT.LNX="Linux"
>
> into the end of my Boot.ini file, but on booting and selecting Linux from
> the NT Dual Boot screen, I get
>
> "NTDETECT 4.00
>
> ERROR: NT CANNOT FIND THE FILE /WINNT/SYSTEM32/NTOSKRNL.EXE
>
> PLEASE INSTALL THIS FILE AND TRY AGAIN"
This is just a guess, but have you forgotten to run lilo before you
copied the bootsector? Make sure you "/etc/lilo.conf"
have the boot-entry to /dev/hda6. It should probably look
something like this:
------------------------------------------------------------
boot=/dev/hda6
root=/dev/hda6
compact
install=/boot/boot.b
map=/boot/map
vga=normal
delay=20
image=/vmlinuz
label=Linux
read-only
-----------------------------------------------------------
then run "lilo"
and copy the bootsector with
"dd if=/dev/hda6 of=bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1"
Don't forget to copy "bootsect.lnx" to the NT-"C:\"-partition.
Hope this helps
/fax
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