[techtalk] RE: Harddrive problems with Lilo

[Jonathan Katz]

This is NT 4.0 Workstation flavor. Icky, yes, but a necessary evil for the
time being.

Jonathan M. Katz
Engineer
VTLinx Multimedia Systems, Inc.
8401 Colesville Road, Ste. 750
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Desk: (301) 563-8437
Fax:  (301) 563-8432



-----Original Message-----
From: Doc Nielsen [mailto:WebMaster at DocNielsen.dk]
Sent: Thursday, 07 September, 2000 23:53
To: Jonathan Katz
Subject: Re: [techtalk] RE: Harddrive problems with Lilo


Are we talking WinNT 4 or WinNT 5 (win2k) ??
win2k has a cute little toy called fixmbr witch creates all the files needed
for you to use the built in boot manager from microsoft.. (booo word, i
know)
well thats one way.
I know 0 about linux but i know tons on WinNT4 and win2k.

Doc

> Hmm, okay, installing RH 6.2 entirely onto SCSI device 1 worked like a
> charm. Now I have a different problem: getting NT 4.0 onto SCSI device 0
> (the 9.1 GB drive)... here's what happens (I don't pretend to think I or
> anyone else on this list is/wants to be an NT guru, but bear with me :)
>
> 1. Boot system with NT setup floppy inserted
> 2. NT chugs through its initial round of setup: loading drivers,
> partitioning (FAT 16) and formatting SCSI 0, and then loading some files
> from the CD-ROM.
> 3. Next, the "restart your system & install will continue" prompt from NT.
> Fine, I restart, having removed any & all floppy/CD media from the disk
> drives.
> 4. Upon reboot, I get the LILO: prompt, hitting <tab> gives me only the
> 'linux' and 'linux-up' options, so it appears that I need to fiddle with a
> lilo file (lilo.conf?) to let it understand that there's an NT OS extant.
>
> Any advice on how to fix this?
>
> As always, TIA,
>
> Jonathan M. Katz
> Engineer
> VTLinx Multimedia Systems, Inc.
> 8401 Colesville Road, Ste. 750
> Silver Spring, MD 20910
> Desk: (301) 563-8437
> Fax:  (301) 563-8432
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Angela Nash [mailto:Chick at the-nashes.net]
> Sent: Thursday, 07 September, 2000 22:46
> To: 'Jonathan Katz'; 'techtalk at linuxchix.org'
> Subject: RE: [techtalk] RE: Harddrive problems with Lilo
>
>
> If the ENTIRE second drive is RedHat, then no, you don't need a /boot.
You
> only need a /boot if the kernel will be above 1024 cylinders.  Since it
will
> be near the beginning of the second drive, you don't need it.
>
> Jason