[3409] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Starting NT 4.0 from LILO
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James C. Bevier)
Fri Nov 8 14:00:16 1996
From: "James C. Bevier" <jbev@jbsys.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 09:53:20 -0700 (MST)
In-Reply-To: <v01530502aea8ea145b4d@[204.213.250.131]> from "D. Michael McFarland" at Nov 8, 96 08:47:58 am
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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
Just add the line:
loader=/boot/any_d.b
and it will work as you want.
Jim
>
> 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
>
>
> --
> D. Michael McFarland <mcfarlan@neca.com>
> Willimantic, Connecticut
>
>
>
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