On Wed, 25 Mar 1998 12:47:56 -0600, you wrote: >So, you may indeed be able to do this. In any case you should be able to use >the >NT Boot Loader to start linux. This is in fact what I do. Set up LILO in your >linux partition and have it write the boot block there. Eg., if your linux >partition were on the third scsi disk in the first partition, a command to do >this would be 'dd if=/dev/sdc1 bs=512 count=1 of=linuxboo.bin'. Then copy that >boot block to a file and stick that file in your main NT partition. Now edit >your >c:\boot.ini file and add a line for Linux, ala 'C:\linuxboo.bin="Linux"' >(assuming you named the file "linuxboo.bin"). As long as your BIOS supports >reading from the third drive this should work.
I have read about this in one of the HOWTO's. This is a real pain for me because my NT partition is ntfs, and I can't use linux tools to copy the boot sector. Is there some way to make a chain loader of some kind? This would be a boot sector that the NT boot loader uses. It would boot whatever partition it points to. Then, whenever you re-compile a kernel, running lilo would update the linux partition boot sector. You would never have to touch the NT "chain" boot sector again, unless you are changing drives. Am I making any sense? Dale -- Dale P. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cleveland Linux Users Group: http://cleveland.lug.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
