On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Tristan Day <that's you!> wrote: > After going through the 'NT OS Loader + Linux mini-HOWTO,' I managed to dual > boot Linux and NT, but only using a boot floppy for Linux. Although I am > pleased that this time I installed Debian it didn't lock me out of NT, I > still want to dual-boot from my hard drive as promised by the HOWTO. > > I have copied the bootsector using > > dd if-/dev/hda6 of=bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1 > > and put it onto my c: drive, and put the line > > C:\BOOTSECT.LNX="Linux" > > into the end of my Boot.ini file, but on booting and selecting Linux from > the NT Dual Boot screen, I get > > "NTDETECT 4.00 > > ERROR: NT CANNOT FIND THE FILE /WINNT/SYSTEM32/NTOSKRNL.EXE > > PLEASE INSTALL THIS FILE AND TRY AGAIN"
This is just a guess, but have you forgotten to run lilo before you copied the bootsector? Make sure you "/etc/lilo.conf" have the boot-entry to /dev/hda6. It should probably look something like this: ------------------------------------------------------------ boot=/dev/hda6 root=/dev/hda6 compact install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal delay=20 image=/vmlinuz label=Linux read-only ----------------------------------------------------------- then run "lilo" and copy the bootsector with "dd if=/dev/hda6 of=bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1" Don't forget to copy "bootsect.lnx" to the NT-"C:\"-partition. Hope this helps /fax -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
