Re: [Dual boot] dual boot NT and debian?
Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan wrote:
>
> On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Mrpeabody wrote:
>
> > I currently have debian running on a ide drive on my computer and I have
> > recently purchases a scsi drive so that I can boot windows from the
> > scsi. Can I use lilo to tell it to boot the scsi drive up and run
> > windows? Trying to make a dual boot machine.
>
> I only know two people running dual boot NT/linux (actually tri-boot
> NT/95/linux) and they inform me that lilo won't boot NT or NT need the
> mbr or something and so they have to use the NT bootloader and loadlin
> to get linux bootstraped.
Yes. I'm dual-booting NT and Linux. I'm using something called
"boopart".
You use lilo to install a boot record on your root partion (not the
mbr),
and let bootpart create a chain loader for NT. I just did it this
morning.
Can't remember where I got bootpart from though.
Dale
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