Re: ?? Lilo, Win NT, & MBR problems: a catch 22
Pending further investigation, we now allege that DTi4565459@aol.com wrote:
> At home I have a laptop where win98 and linux co-exist, with lilo offering
> to boot either one at startup. But at office, after linux installs lilo to
> MBR,
> NT won't boot. So, I went to boot floppy, ran fdisk /mbr; but now
> machine won't boot linux. Boot floppy won't work for linux either.
>
> Reinstalled NT from scratch,and it is now the default boot. Since
> can't boot linux from floppy, I am now reinstalling Potato. But, I
> get stuck at ? where to put lilo. The /boot thing doesn't work for
> me. I can boot with shift key down, but then computer hangs and
> won't accept a number like 2.
>
> Shouldn't complain, I guess, but I lost a lot of time today because
> of this problem. Newbie always appreciates help. TIA,,,dave
NT can boot from lilo, just set it up exactly as you would win98. You
can also boot linux from ntloader; there's a howto that explains how
to do this.
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