Re: dual boot Linux/NT question
Damir,
Did you make your Linux partition bootable?
I recently installed Linux on drive D: of a two-disk NT box. At
first, I used a custom boot disk when I wanted to run Linux.
Over the past weekend, though, I figured out how to add Linux to
the NT loader list and at first I had the same symptom as you: a
blank screen w/blinking cursor. So, per the valuable
instructions I found on www.ourmanpann.com (Thanks, Pann!), I
ran liloconfig and answered yes to the question regarding
installing a boot record to the Linux partition. Having done so, I
can now select Linux from the NT bootlist and all is right with
the world! :-)
On 8 Nov, Damir J. Naden wrote:
> 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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