Re: [Dual boot] dual boot NT and debian?

[Frank Hollmann <frank@moria.org>]

> 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.
> 
> Nikolai
> 
Lilo can be installed in the mbr, if you use a primary partition for
ms-dos. After the Installation of msdos install linux or windows nt. 
In this special case, the nt-loader will be installed in the 
primary dos-partition. lilo can no be instructed to boot NT via the dos partition. 

for example:
10 MB DOS partition (primary partition, with dos-fdisk)
2 GB  extended partition for NT (via NT installation process) 
4 GB extended partition for linux  (with linux fdisk, cfdisk etc.)
 
hda1: msdos
hda5: linux
hda3: nt (nt was installed at last)

some snippets of my lilo-conf

boot=/dev/hda
read-only
image=/vmlinuz-2.1.125
  root=/dev/hda5
  label=Linux
#
other=/dev/hda1
  table=/dev/hda1 
  label=WinNT 


Hope it helps ....

Frank Hollmann
Rotbuchenstr. 26 
81547 Munich / Germany
E-mail: frank.miller@munich.netsurf.de (private)
        frank.hollmann@fa-m-guv.bayern.de (office


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