Well... we've several NT/Linux and NT/2000/Linux machines without a glitch
in LILO behavior.
Miguel Dilaj
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On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Hugo Carvalho wrote:
> > A:\> fdisk /mbr
>
> Any DOS version?
Yes.
> will this install the NT loader back in the MBR or call it from where
ever it
> is (NT part I guess)?
<Puts on instructor hat>
Every Microsoft OS I've ever run, including NT and Win2K, boots from
exactly the same MBR as MS-DOS 5.0 (haven't used older than that). The
mbr - first 512byte sector - simply reads the partition table - second
512byte sector - and tries to load the boot sector of the partition
flagged bootable. "Active" in MS-speak.
As a matter of fact, you can easily boot Linux from a MS MBR, if the
boot partition is first. I haven't tried it, but the second (sda1 or
sda2, or sda5 if sda2 is extended) partition "should" work as well. All
you need to do is toggle the partition with your /boot directory
bootable in linux fdisk, install LILO in the boot sector of that
partition, and restore the MS mbr. Of course, the 1023-cylinder
limitations are still in effect.
Oh, yeah.
I dunno why Linux won't boot NT, even if ntfs is compiled into the
kernel. Maybe somebody else can enlighten us.
See ya later,
Doc
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