Re: [techtalk] dual boot NT/linux

1999-11-09 Thread Agata Rawdanik
I don't know what your problem was, but when I installed linux on my machine (with win95/NT on it) the swap partition shifted the partition numbers and I got something like that : "Windows NT could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \system32\ntoskrnl.exe Please reinstall

Re: [techtalk] dual boot NT/linux

1999-11-09 Thread J B
What was the problem with NT partition? It holds a Microsoft product...and only a Microsoft product... [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com [EMAIL

Re: [techtalk] dual boot NT/linux

1999-11-09 Thread K. Ziel
When I tried to get back into NT, it gave me an error msg, something about the paritition information. I don't remember exactly what it was now... I tried to recover, while maintaining my linux stuff, but I ended up having to do a reinstall OVER the existing NT and that's work, and since i wou

RE: [techtalk] dual boot NT/linux

1999-11-09 Thread Cathy James
Title: RE: [techtalk] dual boot NT/linux >I haven't found a reliable way of getting NT to boot using >lilo without bootpart (keeping in mind that I only have one >hard drive to work with, so they are sharing, and a number >of my installs have been NT/Linux/Win...

Re: [techtalk] dual boot NT/linux

1999-11-08 Thread Agata Rawdanik
> then added linux...it screwed up my NT partitions EVERYTIME...and believe What was the problem with NT partition? [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] dual boot NT/linux

1999-11-08 Thread Kristin Ziel
then perhaps i only thought about it, and never actually did it.. and btw...you're taking away my memory excuse!! i never had a good one until i hit 30 kristin > I haven't found a reliable way of getting NT to boot using lilo without > bootpart (keeping in mind that I only have one hard dr

Re: [techtalk] dual boot NT/linux

1999-11-08 Thread Vinnie Surmonde
On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Kristin Ziel wrote: > hm...i think this may have been my problem...i did read a lot of articles > that mentioned using it, but i ended up trying something without.. > > or, perhaps i misstated in my earlier (just mailed) mail that i thot about > using lilo instead of NT's loa

Re: [techtalk] dual boot NT/linux

1999-11-08 Thread Kristin Ziel
hm...i think this may have been my problem...i did read a lot of articles that mentioned using it, but i ended up trying something without.. or, perhaps i misstated in my earlier (just mailed) mail that i thot about using lilo instead of NT's loader, but never actually did... ARG!! i turn 30 an

Re: [techtalk] dual boot NT/linux

1999-11-08 Thread Kristin Ziel
Well...yes and no. initially, no. i'd tried to use NT's loader like i had previously done during the 95/NT/linux phase. but that *repeatedly* didn't work..and I tried various things, like having a data partition in there,so that it wouldn't be directly "next to" the OS partition. Since that n

Re: [techtalk] dual boot NT/linux

1999-11-08 Thread Vinnie Surmonde
On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Kristin Ziel wrote: > When I decided to clean some house and get rid of 95, and go with NT, and > then added linux...it screwed up my NT partitions EVERYTIME...and believe > me..I was not a happy woman at this point. This turned out well, as it > was my final straw with windo

Re: [techtalk] dual boot NT/linux

1999-11-08 Thread TheCoder
Were you using a boot loader from the distro? (lilo, etc)? Kristin Ziel wrote: > Hi all-- > > question about the NT/Linux dual boot...at one point, I had 95, NT and > linux installed, and booting just fine from one harddrive. They were > installed in that order also. > > When I decided to cle

Re: [techtalk] dual boot NT/linux

1999-11-08 Thread Caitlyn Martin
Hi, Kristen, > When I decided to clean some house and get rid of 95, and go with NT, and > then added linux...it screwed up my NT partitions EVERYTIME...and believe > me..I was not a happy woman at this point. > > I have heard that it doesn't work but is there a technical explanation > that I co

[techtalk] dual boot NT/linux

1999-11-08 Thread Kristin Ziel
Hi all-- question about the NT/Linux dual boot...at one point, I had 95, NT and linux installed, and booting just fine from one harddrive. They were installed in that order also. When I decided to clean some house and get rid of 95, and go with NT, and then added linux...it screwed up my NT pa