Re: dual boot Linux/NT question
Hi Rakesh Mohan; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote:
>
> I am also trying to config my system for dual load from NT loader. I
> followed the steps mentioned by Pat, but if i select the Linux option
> then the system hangs. I see the blank screen with blinking cursor at
> the top left.
>
> (Note: INstead of coping the file, bootsec.lnx, through floppy, i just
> mounted the dos partition on linux and copied the file)
>
> Please let me know if you have any idea to solve this problem.
Sorry, I never had to troubleshoot the thing. It always worked, unless I
changed/recompiled the kernel and didn't update the bootsect.lnx file. Only
ideas I have are:
in your mail you are mentioning about copying the file named _bootsec.lnx_ and
I believe we were talking about _bootsect.lnx_(note the t at the end of boosect).If I can assume that both the filename and the line in the boot.ini have the same name, the other thing is that my bootsect.lnx file has set system and read-only attributes (attrib +r +s command in NT).
Other than that, I'm afraid I do not know what could be wrong.
> BTW, I can now use lilo for branching to NT and linux, this works fine.
>
That is interesting. I was never able to do this. Maybe because my NT
partition was NTFS..
damir
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