Andrew n marshall wrote: > My set up is one primary master IDE hard drive with WinNT on a FAT16 > partition and the NT boot loader in the MBR. Then I have a IDE CD-ROM in > the secondary master and two SCSI hard drives, IDs 0 and 1. The first > SCSI hard drive has LILO on the MBR, a 20G /boot partition and the > remainder (4GB) is /.
Although it is possible to have LILO boot NT, I always used the other way around: Have the NT Loader boot LILO. There is a mini-HOWTO about this topic, I think it is called NT-LOADER+Linux. Here's what you have to do: lilo.conf root=/dev/sda2 <-- your root partition boot=/dev/sda2 <-- also your root partition image=... <-- rest as usual Then reinstall LILO and copy the resulting boot sector on your root partition to your DOS (NT) C: drive: # /sbin/lilo # dd if=/dev/sda2 of=/path-to-your-mounted-c-drive/bootsect.lin Now open the c:\boot.ini file and add the following entry C:\bootsect.lin="Real men use real OS" <-- or any description you like This tells NTLDR to boot the boot sector saved in the image file, which will actually boot LILO, which will then boot Linux. You can also add the entry default=C:\bootsect.lin above the partitions section, so NTLDR will boot Linux by default when it has timed out. HTH, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ Geek Code (3.1): GCS/SS d-@ s+: a20 C++@ UL++$ P+ L+++ E--- W++ N++ o? K? !W O? M? V? PS++@ PE+(-) Y+ P?(+++) t+ 5+ X- R? !tv b+ DI+ D- G e>+++ h-- r- !y+
