Tristan Day 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 > I hope you mean you copied using: dd if=/dev/hda6 of=bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1 Also, are you sure that your lilo.conf has 'boot=/dev/hda6'? I'm including my boot.ini for your reference. It works just fine. > 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" > > and I have to reboot. I tried copying the bootsector of my boot floppy, but > the same happened again. NT is looking for another installation of NT, when > it should just load Linux. > > Help!!! > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org -- Jens B. Jorgensen jjorgens@bdsinc.com
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