Re: Dual Booting Win NT and Debian
Hi Tristan Day <that's you!>; unless Mutt is confused, 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"
>
> 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!!!
>
I'm using this method for months now without a problem...Did you re-run
/sbin/lilo after editing the /etc/lil.conf to include a line like :
boot=/dev/hda6
Damir
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