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Re: [TCLUG:2449] Boot from hard drive using NT bootloader?



I am using lilo to boot NT or Linux but here is what I found at the
SUSE site.
http://www.suse.de/Support/sdb_e/nt.html

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sandipan

Chris Schumann wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Richard Seymour wrote:
> 
> > For NT are you using NTFS or FAT?
> 
> I am using NTFS on the NT partition. However, my C drive is a single 2.1GB
> FAT16 partition, and it has the NT bootloader. I would like to continue to
> use the NT bootloader.
> 
> I did this:
> 
> Copy floppy's boot sector to a file on C
> Copy vmlinuz to /etc
> Copied floppy's lilo.conf to /etc
> Edit lilo.conf to point to /etc
> Attempted to install lilo on linux partition (/dev/sdb2) I'm not sure if
> this part worked
> Copied bootsector to C drive
> Started NT and edited boot.ini to point to bootsector on C
> 
> NT bootloader works for NT and Windows 95, but not for Linux.
> 
> Chris Schumann <whizkid@dwave.net>
> 
> > > Chris Schumann wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I have a computer with SuSE Linux installed on the second partition of my
> > > > second hard drive. It boots from floppy just fine, but even after trying
> > > > the details (as such) in the Linux-NT bootloader mini howto, I still can't
> > > > get Linux to boot from the hard drive. I just get a blinky cursor.
> > > >
> > > > Linux still boots from the floppy.
> > > >
> > > > I'd appreciate some help getting this to work. (and then I can worry about
> > > > SMP and my DSL setup!)
> > > >
> > > > What info do I need to share? Should I capture some output (perhaps of
> > > > fdisk)?
> >
> > --
> > Richard Seymour, Anarchy Software, Inc.
> > anarchy@anarchysoftware.com
> >
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