Re: [TCLUG:1645] NT + Linux?

[Nate Carlson <natecars@infiniteloop.com>]

In my experience, NT and Linux have always coexisted fine. Try reading the
HOWTO on it.. it tells you how to make the NT boot loader boot Linux. I
usually just install LILO as usual, and it boots NT fine over here.. YMMV.

-Nate Carlson
 The Infinite Loop
 natecars@infiniteloop.com

On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Mihir Wagle wrote:

> Does anyone have experience with both of these coexisting?
> 
> 
> I've had it with NT! First it wouldn't format a 4 GB partition I had 
> allocated for it using NTFS, so I had to creat two 2 GB partitions for NT 
> and allocate the remaining two for Linux. Next we installed NT first, 
> since we didn't want it writing all over the MBR. Finally we installed 
> Red Hat 5.1 and put LILO in the MBR, and added NT as a boot option. Linux 
> booted fine, but NT came up with the famous blue screen with a large hex 
> dump. Is there some easy way to have these two coexist?
> 
> I thought the NT boot loader couldn't boot linux... But LILO could boot NT
> 
> We have NT in the first 4 GB and Linux in the last 6 GB of our hard 
> drive. 
> 
> the partition is as follows:
> 
> /dev/hda1   NTFS (WIndows NT)    2 GB
> /dev/hda2   FAT-16               2 GB       
> /dev/hda3   Linux swap           127 MB
> /dev/hda4   Linux root partition 5.5 GB
> 
> I'd appreciate any tips! The last resort is getting Windows 95 which 
> coexists pretty well.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Mihir
> 
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