SV: booting with lilo win2k
> Yesterday I had to install Win2000; while I suspected that it would
> overwrite the MBR (where lilo lives), I had a boot floppy ready and
> restored the MBR w/o problems. However I can't figure out how to
> multiboot into it using LILO as my main boot manager. Searching the
> web produced some suggestions on adding linux into the W2K's boot
> menu, but I would prefer to stick with lilo all the way.
>
> Adding the following to lilo.conf:
> ,----
> | other = /dev/hda1
> | label = win
> `----
> doesn't seem to cut it; I get an error message "Cannot find NTBF." or
> some such, after which the only optoin is C-A-Del.
>
> Is there a clean solution to this problem? Will I have to reinstall
> Win2K since I hosed its MBR?
>
> Thanks for any pointers,
The Multiboot-with-LILO mini-howto (which is covering Win95 + WinNT +
Linux multiboot using LILO, but works for win2000 aswell) is probably what
your looking for. it worked for me anyway.. ;)
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