[techtalk] RE: Harddrive problems with Lilo

[Jonathan Katz]

Eric, it works like a charm! RH6.2 all by itself on sdb, NT 4.0 all by
itself on sda! Hot dog! Thanks very much to everyone who was able to help me
out with this, now I can get to the fun parts!

Jonathan M. Katz
Engineer
VTLinx Multimedia Systems, Inc.
8401 Colesville Road, Ste. 750
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Desk: (301) 563-8437
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-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Baudais [mailto:drake at x8b4e5002.dhcp.okstate.edu]
Sent: Friday, 08 September, 2000 01:31
To: Jonathan Katz
Cc: 'techtalk at linuxchix.org'
Subject: Re: [techtalk] RE: Harddrive problems with Lilo


On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 11:24:54PM -0400, Jonathan Katz wrote:
> 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 :)

Goodness, I hope I don't become one...
 
> 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?

You need to edit your lilo.conf file in /etc/.  You need to add/change the 
settings so that these lines are in it somewhere:

other = /dev/hda1 #or whatever partition NT is on.
	table = /dev/hda
	label = winNT

Then you need to run the command $ lilo as the root user.

With all this done, when you reboot and press <tab> at the lilo prompt you 
should get an extra option called "winNT."  Type LILO: winNT and you 
should be able to get windoze NT to boot.

Eric Baudais