On Wednesday 18 July 2001 12:25 pm, you wrote:
> Well... we've several NT/Linux and NT/2000/Linux machines without a glitch
> in LILO behavior.
>
Can i see your lilo.conf ?
thx
h
> Miguel Dilaj
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> On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Hugo Carvalho wrote:
> > > A:\> fdisk /mbr
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> > Any DOS version?
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> Yes.
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> > will this install the NT loader back in the MBR or call it from where
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> ever it
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> > is (NT part I guess)?
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> <Puts on instructor hat>
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> 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.
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> Oh, yeah.
> I dunno why Linux won't boot NT, even if ntfs is compiled into the
> kernel. Maybe somebody else can enlighten us.
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> See ya later,
> Doc
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