Re: ?? Lilo, Win NT, & MBR problems: a catch 22
i did this recently, and as a solution i just created a 15MB C: drive
for
the boot loader(primary partition) then Linux got a /boot partition
and NT got it's own primary partition. then i load LILO to the MBR and
tell
it to boot to C: (which then loads NT's boot loader) to load NT
or load linux off it's own partition for linux.
ive worked with other ways to do this including copying the boot sectors
to a file for nt's boot.ini but i didn't like how that worked. in my
experience the above was a better solution.
(or just put NT on a FAT partition ..depending on your needs and the
size
of the HDD ..)
nate
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
>
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