On 19 Jan 1999, Frederick Page wrote: > you wrote on: 18 Jan 99 at 15:30 (received 19.01.99) > about : _Re: dualboot linux and NT?_ > > >WinNT can not boot directly from a slave disk, as far as I know. > > Well, it *can* boot from any disk and any partition, no matter what. > > >It needs to have it's boot files on the active partition on the master > >drive. > > That's exactly the problem, you need to have a FAT16-partition within the > first 1024 cylinders of the first harddrive. The so-called C: (speaking in > DOS-/Win-terms).
This is clearly not true. I have a dual boot configuration on my Dell Inspiron with one IDE harddrive configured as follows: MBR lilo partition-1 Windows-NT, 4.0-service pack 4, NTFS partition-2 FAT32, pagefile.sys, only used for virtual memory partition-3 Debian, ext2 partition Remaining Debian filesystems Works fine. -- Jean Pierre
