Granted, it would be nuts NOT to have boot and rescue floppies for
all the O/S's on your multi-boot machine. However, the bootpart process
mentioned previously I have used without incident. There is a mini how-to
available on dual booting NT + Linux.
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> I had the same problem with LILO when I installed Linux on my machine.
> The only way I could recover the MBR on my NT disk IIRC was to create a
> boot floppy using my old Win3.1 laptop and use this to recreate the MBR on
> the NT machine. After this experience I would recommend creating a boot
> floppy in preference to LILO. Still, in the end it's down to preference.
>
> Tom Churchward
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> On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 03:46:21PM -0500, Michael S. Dunsavage wrote:
> > watch out for lilo, You cannot put lilo on the MBR cuz NT will have a
> shit
> > fit.
>
> Really? I did that for the longest time when I was dual booting
> Linux and Windows NT 4.0 SP4 on my laptop. Now I use VMWare and I don't
> dual boot anything, but I recall this working on several systems.
>
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