Lam, Yochai wrote:
> ok,up to here everything is fine with me.
> let me clarify my intentions:
> is lilo going to overide the ntldr and how can i preserve all systems
> p.s. heared too many "it destroyed my XXX" stories
I think that ntldr is not stored on MBR, but here is a way to install lilo
so that it won't overwrite MBR and will coexist with ntldr.
you need to tell lilo to install itself on linux partition and not on MBR.
explanation:
your linux partition may be primary or logical. primamry partition has
its own boot sector, logical
partition lacks one, but since logical partition resides on "extended"
partiton, which has boot sector,
we can say that there is a boot sector for logical partition.
what you should do is telling lilo that you want lilo to install linux
loader chain onto linux partition
boot sector, in case your linux partiton is a primary partition, or on
boot sector of extended partition
that holds your linux partition in case your linux partiton is a logical
partition.
When you do do, you will have 2 boot sectors: one for windows partiton
and one on linux partiton.
you can tell lilo to chain-load ntloader, thus making lilo primary boot
loader and ntldr secondary,
or you can make ntldr to chain load lilo.
Reffer to http://iglu.org.il/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Linux+NT-Loader.html
to set up ntldr to load linux partition with help of lilo.
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