[techtalk] RE: Harddrive problems with Lilo

[Lyric .]

I know that the best and easiest way to do what you desire is to wipe 
everything out, and install Linux first,  being sure to et aside the 
drive(s) that you want for NT with either no partition on them at all,  or 
blank partitions.  (Some linux distros have installers that freak when there 
is  that much unpartitioned space apparently,  though I've never had that 
problem.

After completely installing Linux (and making a Linux boot disk) you then 
install Windows NT4.  This will overwrite the existing Linux mbr,  no worrie 
though, you want this.

After NT4 is installed, you edit the Windows NT4 OS Loader configuration and 
add certain files from your floppy (I can't remember right now what they 
are) and then that adds an entry for Linux as an option.  The standard 
default will no doubt be Windows NT,  this can be changed.

But, what will happen on bootup, is the Windows NT 4 OS Loader will pop up 
and give you the option of NT4 or Linux.  if you select Linux, it should 
load Lilo and boot right into Linux,  no problems.

Here is a link I found for you to browse through,  it might help, it might 
not.  Can't say i didn't try...

http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/MultiOS-HOWTO.html

Good luck at any rate.

>To: "'techtalk at linuxchix.org'" <techtalk at linuxchix.org>
>Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 22:32:26 -0400
>charset="iso-8859-1"
>Subject: [techtalk] RE: Harddrive problems with Lilo
>
>Okay, things are a little updated since my original question. Here's what 
>my
>system looks like now, hard drive wise:
>
>	SCSI device 0:	 9.1 GB
>	SCSI device 1:	18.1 GB
>
>What I want to end up with:
>
>SCSI device 0:
>
>	C:	 2  GB FAT w/ NT on
>	D:	 6  GB FAT partition for NT
>	/boot  64 MB Linux native w/ RH6.2
>
>SCSI device 1:
>
>	[ The rest of the RH6.2 filesystems... no NT! ]
>
>I beleive this is doable, at least in principle. I'm giving it a go right
>now as a matter of fact, but if I'm going to need the newer "smarter" LILO
>that allows /boot to live past cylinder 1024, please someone let me know!
>
>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


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