[techtalk] Problem with LILO & booting

[Shirrell]

Are any of these Linux/NT installs with the Linux on an external
SCSI Jazz drive?  If so I would like to know how you did it.  All
the info I found on the web was for internal drives.

It would be great if I could get rid of these floppy boots.

Shirrell
sb at pstat.com  

> From owner-techtalk at hub.org Wed Mar  1 13:38:11 2000
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> Subject: Re: [techtalk] Problem with LILO & booting
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> I have to heartily concur with Harry here.  NT and Linux will play VERY
> nice together.  Ive had more luck with NT-first-then-Linux installs, while
> a friend of mine swears by Linux-first-then-Nt installs.
> 
> syscom is an incredible tool, if you can put your hands on it.  I have an
> old version somewhere, but I can't find it, else i'd post it on my 'site.  
> 
> the multiboot howto is pretty extensive.
> 
> --mandi
> 
> On Wed, 1 Mar 2000 moebius at ip-solutions.net wrote:
> 
> > Hello All,
> >      That is simply not the case. Here at work I have a dual boot
> > NT/Linux(RH6.1) machine. There are great howto's around on getting it to
> > work and it's not that difficult.
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Harry Hoffman
> > Product Systems Specialist
> > Restaurants Unlimited Inc.
> > 206.634.3082 x. 270
> > 
> > On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Snarfblat wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > I appologize if this has been mentioned, but lilo will not work with
> > > NT.  They both seem to want the MBR in an exclusive manner, so you must
> > > pick one or the other, or find another os manager like System Commander
> > > (which will play nice with NT).
> > > 
> > > If you are having problems with dual boot using lilo and NT there is no
> > > other workaround except booting from a non HD drive, or using a
> > > different boot loader.
> > > 
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