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Starting NT 4.0 from LILO
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (D. Michael McFarland)
Fri Nov 8 08:51:21 1996
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 08:47:58 -0500
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From: mcfarlan@neca.com (D. Michael McFarland)
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I have Linux and Windows NT 4.0 installed and would like to use LILO
to boot either, but am having some trouble starting NT this way.
The machine is a Gateway Pentium 166, 32 MB RAM, which originally had
one IDE disk and ran only NT 4.0 (upgraded from 3.51). When I decided
to take the plunge into Linux, I installed a second IDE disk to
dedicate to it. Both disks are on the primary IDE controller, with the
"new" (Linux) disk as master and the "old" (NT) disk as slave. I
installed Red Hat Linux 4.0 from CD without too much difficulty,
except for a complaint about a problem with the installation of LILO
(I *think* I want it on the MBR of the master HD). Skipping this
(last) step of the installation and rebooting got me the LILO prompt,
though, and LILO happily starts Linux. I had hoped that all I needed
to do was tell LILO about NT, but so far I've failed at this.
The primary partition containing the entire NT installation is mounted
under Linux as /ntc, and is visible to Linux. It is the first
partition on its drive, and was created by the NT installer. The most
successful /etc/lilo.conf file I've come up with is this:
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux
root=/dev/hda1
initrd=/boot/initrd
read-only
other=/dev/hdb1
label=nt
table=/dev/hdb
loader=/ntc/ntldr
When I run /sbin/lilo, I get the message "Chain loader doesn't have a
valid LILO signature", which leads me to suspect something's wrong or
missing in the NT stanza. I've read all the docs I can find forward
and backward; it may well be right in front of me, but I'm just not
seeing it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
-- Michael
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D. Michael McFarland <mcfarlan@neca.com>
Willimantic, Connecticut
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