Re: [LI] Linux boot loader

[Raju <narain.cr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Billy,
	Whatever you have written is right and fine but me feels it is a
little cumbersome. Is is not easier and better to just set the LINUX
partition as the active partition and let LILO do all the hard work cause'
LILO is a 1000 times better at these things than anything M$ could ever
come up with. Moreover the solution U have suggested works with NT and
Linux. NT obviously (and automatically) handles w95 partitions as well,
but what if say U want to add an OS/2 partition or a BeOS partition to the
disk. How will the NT loader then handle it... Obviously it is not as
simple to get boot images from all os's as it is with linux... All these
pblms could be safely avoided by just installing LILO in the root
partition and making it active...

Bye.

Narain.

On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Bilal Muddassir wrote:

> 
> There is a mini HOWTO for NT+Linux
> NT hates any other bootloader on the MBR other than its own
> Install NT then install Linux and do not install lilo on the MBR
> Install lilo on the root partition of your Linux system
> Make a linux bootdisk during the installation and boot from it
> run dd if=/dev/hdXX of=/bootsec.lnx bs=512 count=1 to peel off the boot
> sector of Linux root partition into a file
> Then cp this file to a floppy disk
> Reboot to run NT
> Copy the bootsec.lnx file from the floppy into C:\
> Find the file boot.ini in NT and attrib -s -r -h boot.ini and edit the
> portion of it like this
> 
> [boot loader]
> timeout=30
> default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
> [operating systems]
> multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows NT Workstation ...
> multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows NT Workstation ...
> C:\BOOTSECT.LNX="Linux"
> 
> Save and set the attributes again and reboot to see the Linux inside the
> NTLoader menu
> Linux should be booted if everything works well
> 
> Worked for me

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