Re: Multi-Boot
Hi Dale Smith; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Mar 1998 12:47:56 -0600, you wrote:
>
> I have read about this in one of the HOWTO's. This is a real pain for me
> because my NT partition is ntfs, and I can't use linux tools to copy the boot
> sector.
I'm using the same setup, that is I'm booting linux off of the NT boot loader
or whatever M$ calls that thing. I don't understand why do you feel that the
fact your NT partition is ntfs would stop you from using a floppy and copy
over the boot sector of your linux partition as a msdos file into the NT
partition ... I have a ntfs partition and it worked OK.
>
> Is there some way to make a chain loader of some kind? This would be a boot
> sector that the NT boot loader uses. It would boot whatever partition it
> points to. Then, whenever you re-compile a kernel, running lilo would update
> the linux partition boot sector. You would never have to touch the NT "chain"
> boot sector again, unless you are changing drives. Am I making any sense?
That is exactly what the method you are questioning would do, *except* you
will have to copy over the linux partition bootsector file into the NT
partition every time you re-run LILO (please someone correct me if I'm wrong
here). So , running LILO will not update your file on the NT partition. But
how many times a year are you planning on running LILO? Three, maybe four
times is my max, and I don't mind using floppy for that.
Only my two cents...
regards,
damir
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