question 2:
Here's "NT-Bootloading How-To" I was talking about.
You won't need a fat partition:
NT-Bootloading-Linux-HOWTO
You have Windows NT installed on one partition using NTFS, one partition
with DOS as
C:\, and Linux on a third. You wish
to use NT's bootloader to load all three OSes.
Here is what worked for me.
1.boot Linux using your boot disk.
2.login as root.
3.mount a MS-DOS formatted floppy (e.g. mount /dev/fd0 /mnt -t msdos)
4.do a (assuming that linux is installed on /dev/hda3):
dd if=/dev/hda3 of=/mnt/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1
5.edit /etc/lilo.conf with the following:
6.boot=/mnt/bootsect.lnx
7.delay=0
8.run LILO
9.unmount /mnt
10.shutdown Linux, boot NT
11.copy a:\bootsect.lnx c:\
12.c:\attrib -h -s -r boot.ini
13.using notepad or edit, add the following under the [Operating Systems]
section (of boot.ini):
c:\bootsect.lnx="The Linux Operating System"
14.c:\attrib +h +s +r boot.ini
15.reboot NT to see your new menu item
I think that if you have NTFS as your file system on C:\ that the same
thing will
work!
Also, I have modified the procedure so that I mount the MS-DOS partition as
/dosc and
have lilo.conf changed to
'boot=/dosc/bootsect.lnx' and don't have to use a floppy at all (although
it is nice
to have a boot on a floppy, the convience of
directly reconfiguring after rebuilding the kernel is worth it!).
Thanks for this technique should be given to John Reece
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and
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