Hey, man. I have NT + 95 + Linux booting from the NT partition.
There's a How-To that can help you. Since I don't remember where I got it, I am
copying and pasting it:
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NT-Bootloading-Linux-HOWTO
You have Windows NT installed on one partition using NTFS, one partition with
DOS as
C:\, and Linux on a third. You wish
to use NT's bootloader to load all three OSes.
Here is what worked for me.
1.boot Linux using your boot disk.
2.login as root.
3.mount a MS-DOS formatted floppy (e.g. mount /dev/fd0 /mnt -t msdos)
4.do a (assuming that linux is installed on /dev/hda3):
dd if=/dev/hda3 of=/mnt/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1
5.edit /etc/lilo.conf with the following:
6.boot=/mnt/bootsect.lnx
7.delay=0
8.run LILO
9.unmount /mnt
10.shutdown Linux, boot NT
11.copy a:\bootsect.lnx c:\
12.c:\attrib -h -s -r boot.ini
13.using notepad or edit, add the following under the [Operating Systems]
section:
c:\bootsect.lnx="The Linux Operating System"
14.c:\attrib +h +s +r boot.ini
15.reboot NT to see your new menu item
I think that if you have NTFS as your file system on C:\ that the same thing
will
work!
Also, I have modified the procedure so that I mount the MS-DOS partition as
/dosc and
have lilo.conf changed to
'boot=/dosc/bootsect.lnx' and don't have to use a floppy at all (although it is
nice
to have a boot on a floppy, the convience of
directly reconfiguring after rebuilding the kernel is worth it!).
Thanks for this technique should be given to John Reece ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I'm a newbie to Linux and to this list. Don't know if this was the How-To you
were
using.
Sebastian Canagaratna escreveu:
> I am having the following problem:
>
> I have Linux Debian 2.1 + Windows NT 4.0
> I have followed the instructions in the minihowto and got the
> NT to give the menu to choose either NT or Linux. However
> I cannot mark the Linux partition bootable: this gives an error
> on boot up. I have another machine with OS2 boot manager, and I
> mark the Linux partition as well as the MBR bootable.
>
> This is no problem by itself, but unfortunately, when I copied
> zImage to a floopy, this seems to require that the Linux partition
> be marked bootable. If this is not done, on boot up the machine
> says it did not find a boot sector on floppy and proceeds to
> give the menu choices.
>
> I tried, changing the lilo.conf to boot=/dev/fd0, and then running
> lilo. After this I changed the lilo conf to /boot=/dev/sda2. THis
> made no difference.
>
> Is is pottisble to have a bootable floppy with NT and Linux?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Sebastian Canagaratna
> Department of Chemistry
> Ohio NOrthern University
> Ada, OH 45810
>
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