Re: Lilo and Win2k
I believe that Win9x or ME will boot on any partition... but
from my experience... I had to put windows NT 4.0 workstation
on the hda or I could't boot from it....I assuming that would be the same
for win2k
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kent West" <westk@acu.edu>
To: "John Hughes" <totaloverseer@home.com>
Cc: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2001 1:14 PM
Subject: Re: Lilo and Win2k
> John Hughes wrote:
>
> >I am trying to get my dualboot machine to work properly. using Lilo, i
can boot linux, which occupies
> >/dev/hda
> >
> >When i tried to get it to boot Win2k, which occupies /dev/hdb, it came up
with something about NTDLTR or something like that. How can i get it to boot
win2k?
> >
> I'm not 100% sure, but I'm about 90% sure that Windows insists on
> "owning" the first partition of the first drive for its boot files. What
> this means is that I believe you'll have to reverse your setup, so that
> W2K is on /dev/hda and Linux is on /dev/hdb.
>
> Perhaps someone else on this list can verify or deny this claim.
>
> Kent
>
>
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