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Re: Linux/WinNT dual booting



On Wed, Jul 01, 1998 at 01:45:35AM -0400, Paul Miller wrote:
> hmm.. that won't work because NT is booting off the dos partition.  I
> tried setting the NT partition as the bootable partition and it complained
> about not finding a NTLDR file (if I remember correctly).
> 
> Because NT's boot loader is much easier to use, I'd like to use it to boot
> all three OSs.  I'll still use LILO on the Linux partition in case I need
> to specify any arguments..  the only problem is how do I specify a non-DOS
> partition in NT's boot loader.  MS only mentions OSs that it can read the
> filesystem, so I don't know what to do..

Download and use BOOTPART. It will set this up for you. It runs on DOS,
and maybe in an NT dos box (I can't remember if it does or doesn't.)


Hamish
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