Re: dualboot linux and NT?
WinNT can not boot directly from a slave disk, as far as I know. It
needs to have it's boot files on the active partition on the master
drive. It is possible to have the bulk of NT on any drive, but the boot
files must always be on the master drive.
How did you install NT there to begin with? You must have switched
drives around at some point, or originally had a FAT16 partition on the
master drive.
Tom
Daryl Williams wrote:
>
> folks,
>
> i have a system running linux debian hamm with kernel 2.0.34.
> this system has 2 IDE drives. linux is installed on the 1st disk
> and boot using lilo. i have windows NT on the second disk which
> is set as a slave IDE disk. when i try to boot windows NT from
> lilo i get the an error message from the system that says is cant
> find NTLDR. i am assuming this error message is comming from
> the NT boot loader.
>
> i have read the howtos on dual booting but none of them address
> this kind of setup with 2 disks. it looks like i might have to edit the
> boot.ini file on NT, but that could result in an unbootable system
> so i am trying to get some feedback before proceeding that down
> road.
>
> any ideas, tips, etc. are welcomed.
>
> thanks in advance,
>
> //daryl
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